For Darrell Sheriff, it was just another Monday at work. The 41-year-old man was working his normal shift as a private worker in Mississippi on November 4 when he died in a terrible accident.
Jackson Police Chief Joseph Wade said that at 10:30 a.m., officers in Jackson, Miss., got a call about a crash. Wade said that when the police got there, they found Sheriff “buried under hot asphalt.” It is said that the worker was working on a dump truck when it turned on him while carrying a lot of hot asphalt.
During a news conference, Wade said, “It looked like something was wrong with his dump truck.” According to AP News, the 41-year-old man was working on a hydraulic line under the dump truck when the tailgate opened and cement fell on him. The investigation into what happened is still going on.
According to Lone Star Paving, asphalt is usually brought to job sites when it’s very hot, between 275 and 300 degrees. nj.gov said that the asphalt is also known to hurt and burn human skin, and the fumes from it are dangerous.
According to the police, people who saw the crash tried to help save Sheriff, but the hot asphalt burned him and killed him. The chief said, “They said he tried to fight through those injuries, but they were just too big for him to live.” The sheriff’s death was ruled an accident by the cops, but they are still looking into what happened.
Chief Wade, the police chief, said he talked to the Sheriff’s family and they said he was a “good, hardworking man.” “Very horrific and very tragic,” he said of the death. To continue his speech, the chief asked the people of Jackson to “pray for this family.”
Source: Mississippi Man Dies in the Most Excruciating Work Accident You Can Imagine
