© 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc.Many drivers have asked me about the spinner knob on the steering wheel of my truck. The quarry site is in Cape Sandy, an unincorporated community that lies close to the Ohio River and is near the Kentucky border. “For our searches, we have to make sure it’s a safe, stable environment for them to even enter the water,” Schreck reportedly said. Sonar images taken from the boat pinpointed the truck’s location, and a remote-operated submersible helped show divers where the man was, the Natural Resources Department said.ĭivers then pulled the worker’s body out of the submerged truck. WDRB Emergency responders recovered the body of a dump truck driver, who fell several hundred feet with his vehicle into a quarry filled with water in southern Indiana. “Our efforts were hampered by the terrain.” The victim was driving the dump truck by a cliff when it went over the edge, the department said. “As you can imagine a quarry is not the most stable environment to work in,” Indiana Conservation Officer Jim Schreck told WDRB. Employees with the company constructed a temporary path that helped conservation officers reach the water by boat. Tuesday, the department said.įirst responders reached the scene, but had trouble searching for the man because of “steep, unstable terrain” around the pit, officials said. employee was driving the massive dump truck near the cliff before it went over the edge around 2 p.m. The unidentified worker’s body was found by divers Wednesday morning at least 20 feet below the surface in rural Crawford County, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources said in a news release. Trucking giant Yellow paid execs $4.6M after bankruptcy left 30K joblessĪ dump truck driver fatally plunged hundreds of feet into a water-filled rock pit in Indiana Tuesday after his several-ton vehicle slipped near the edge of a quarry site, according to officials. Truck driver who fatally plunged hundreds of feet from quarry ID’d as long-time employee Pick-up runs over Corvette in monster truck-style crash that somehow ends with no injuries Gavin Newsom vetoes bill banning robotrucks without safety drivers
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