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Today's nightmare scenario: Cemetery worker buried alive in New York grave mishap
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:41 pm
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:41 pm
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?A cemetery in Long Island was the site of tragedy when a worker was buried while in a grave on Thursday.
(Gray News) - A New York cemetery worker was buried alive Thursday morning while working inside a grave.
Rodwin Allicock, 42, of Coram, was leveling out the bottom of a 7-foot-deep grave at Washington Memorial Park in Mount Sinai when the sides collapsed, burying him, WABC reported.
His co-workers’ attempts to dig him out were unsuccessful, and despite the rescue efforts of first responders from several agencies, Allicock was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:42 pm to LegendInMyMind
Did they just leave him and have a service that evening?
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:42 pm to LegendInMyMind
So...
Do they just leave him there?
Do they just leave him there?
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:43 pm to LegendInMyMind
So they pulled him out the grave just to put him back in?
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:43 pm to LegendInMyMind
How long does it take to dig a 6 foot person out of a 7 foot grave?
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:44 pm to LegendInMyMind
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buried alive Thursday morning while working inside a grave
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:44 pm to LegendInMyMind
nightmare. we can only pray the force of the collapse knocked him unconscious so it was an easier way to go
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:45 pm to LegendInMyMind
What a plot twist
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:45 pm to LegendInMyMind
It's nearly impossible to dig someone out of dirt like that. 1 cubic foot of dirt weighs roughly 60 pounds. It doesn't take much to squish a person.
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:45 pm to LegendInMyMind
So he was digging his own grave.
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:51 pm to LegendInMyMind
sounds like they followed all of osha's precautionary steps
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:51 pm to LegendInMyMind
That's tragic, but are they really digging 7' graves without any kind of trench safety?
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:56 pm to LegendInMyMind
Posted on 2/26/21 at 12:58 pm to LegendInMyMind
Trench collapse is a horrific way to die, becaause you are fully aware that it is happening....and any potential rescuers typically pull you in half. Every state has a couple of accidents of this type every year and simple trenching and shoring practices could prevent every one.
Posted on 2/26/21 at 1:00 pm to LegendInMyMind
There's no way they were doing this routinely right? I'm assuming they used an excavator and he just got in there afterward? I'm curious if you could say put a harness around yourself and then tie yourself to the excavator and have it just lift you out if this happened again? That certainly wouldn't be Osha certified method though.
Posted on 2/26/21 at 1:18 pm to LegendInMyMind
I know guy this happened to. Well, it was a ditch they were digging. His dad was there too. Horrible
Posted on 2/26/21 at 1:24 pm to LegendInMyMind
I remember a story a few years ago, a crew was digging something with a backhoe (not a grave). It was pretty deep and collapsed on a worker. They used the backhoe as a last measure. They did pull him out, all but him head. They decapitated him.
Posted on 2/26/21 at 1:50 pm to LegendInMyMind
Sounds like an OSHA violation. Dude's family is about to get paid.
Posted on 2/26/21 at 1:53 pm to LegendInMyMind
I'd say that's a grave situation
Posted on 2/26/21 at 4:34 pm to LegendInMyMind
Free burial, I guess...
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