December 03, 2008

Man killed in accident at Bannet Steel in Sapulpa

AP reported that a 23 year old man was killed in an industrial accident at Bennett Steel in Sapulpa city in Creek County and Tulsa County, of Oklahoma State in US.

Creek County Sheriff's Corporal Allen Harwood said Mr Elmer Crane was announced dead yesterday at a Tulsa hospital, where he was flown after the incident at Bennett Steel.

The Sheriff said that Mr Crane was trying to hook a boom dolly to a crane when the dolly he was standing on rolled out from under him, trapping him between the two pieces of machinery.

Mr Harwood said that the death is being investigated as an accident.