WINONA LAKE – A construction worker was killed late Thursday afternoon when he was crushed by a piece of machinery 1431 Route 300, Newburgh Towne Center, in the Winona Lake area of the Town of Newburgh, emergency services personnel said.
Town Police and EMS staff and Winona Lake firefighters were on the scene of the incident in the vicinity of where a retail space is being remodeled into a Home Goods store.
Police say a yellow boom crane being operated off a red truck somehow malfunctioned.
The worker became trapped.
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