re: Today's nightmare scenario: Cemetery worker buried alive in New York grave mishap

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Its only a 7 ft hole. I think you guys are overthinking this. Unless he was laying down or otherwise caught completely off guard, There's a good chance his head was only a couple feet from the ground level

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It would have hit him from one side and knocked him down. It also would have crushed his rib cage and knocked him unconscious. The top of his head probably would have been four feet below ground level.

He might have had the only shovel. Those holes are dug by machines, and you can't dig him out with a backhoe for fear of killing him with that.