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GREELEY — Authorities in Greeley say a man working at the JBS Swift & Co. plant died after a semitrailer backed into him in a loading dock.
Police believe 42-year-old David Peter Volpe, Jr. had been operating a fork lift Saturday evening when he got off the vehicle for an unknown reason. It appears that he was pinned behind the truck as it backed up to the loading dock.
Weld County coroner Mark Ward says he will notify the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which investigates industrial accidents.
OSHA investigated the death of a Swift employee who died in February after falling about 20 feet in a storage room at the plant.
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Information from: Greeley Daily Tribune,
