Death Care Services

NarrativeAt 3:00 p.m. on October 13, 2016, an employee was tightening a hydraulic hose on a dump box 1980 Ford F-350 with a 24 inch crescent wrench and a 12 inch pipe wrench. The employee raised the dump box, noticed the leaking hose, and leaned over the truck frame to tighten the connection. The employee turned the fitting the wrong way which caused the line to loose pressure and the dump box to lower onto the employee. The employee was caught under the box and killed by asphyxiation.

NarrativeAn employee was cleaning the debris off of a pitched roof when he fell from the eave onto the lower flat roof (fell about 5 feet), breaking his pelvis and requiring hospitalization.

NarrativeOn April 23, 2016, at approximately 9:30 a.m., a maintenance employee was on a scissor lift with a coworker, preparing for an entombment. Working from the lift, the two employees removed the granite face from the mausoleum. As the granite was being lowered to the lift, the maintenance employee fell 12 feet from the lift and landed on the concrete surface below. The employee was hospitalized for fractures to the face, both wrists, and jaw.