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A Brookville father of two was killed Thursday at a construction site when part of concrete crushing machine hit him, police said.
The victim was Thomas Morgan, 29, of the 7200 block of Brookville Salem Pike, according to the Montgomery County Coroner's office. He was killed about 9:15 a.m. in the 800 block of West Washington Street, the future site of the Dayton Public School district's David H. Ponitz Career Center.
Morgan was working for Homrich Inc., based in Carleton, Mich., Dayton police Sgt. Richard Blommel said.
The accident occurred when Morgan went to check on a crusher that had jammed, Blommel said. The crusher is used to grind concrete into sand.
The crusher's operator had shut off the machine and walked away when Morgan went to kick a part of the machine called the tumbler, which rolls the concrete pieces around and shoves them into the area where the grinder is located, Blommel said.
"When he kicked it lose, it flipped (up and hit him)," Blommel said. "The machine was off, but it was still under pressure."
Co-workers at the scene said Morgan was a member of the Operating Engineers Union Local 18.
Representatives from the Cincinnati office of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration were at the site Thursday morning.
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