“It appears to be an accidental death at this particular time,” Jackson Police Department said of the Monday, Nov. 4 tragedy
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A man has died after being ‘buried under hot asphalt’
A man in Mississippi has died after being “buried under hot asphalt” in what police have called a “tragic” accident.
On Monday, Nov. 4 at around 10:30 a.m. local time, Jackson Police Department (JPD) officers were called to AJ Materials, located in the 1000 block of E. McDowell Road, Chief Joseph Wade said in a press conference shared on Facebook .
“Upon arrival, they located a individual who had been buried under a hot asphalt,” Wade told reporters of the man, who is believed to be a private contractor.
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“It appeared to be some type of malfunction with his dump truck, the vehicle that he was there to pick up asphalt with,” the police chief explained, adding that as the man tried to “fix” the vehicle, it “unloaded” the hot material “onto him.”…