{"id":34352,"date":"2024-11-05T04:47:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T10:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=34352"},"modified":"2024-11-05T04:47:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T10:47:24","slug":"man-working-on-dump-truck-in-mississippi-fatally-buried-under-hot-asphalt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=34352","title":{"rendered":"Man working on dump truck in Mississippi fatally &#8216;buried under hot asphalt&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A man was killed Monday fixing a dump truck in Mississippi when scalding asphalt fell on him, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Officers responded to a call about an accident about 10:30 a.m.,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1289889248810171\">Jackson Police Chief Joseph Wade<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1289889248810171\">\u2002said<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Officers found the private contractor, who was tasked with picking up asphalt, \u201cburied under hot asphalt,&#8221; Wade said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;It appeared to be some type of malfunction with his dump truck,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He was fixing the dump truck when the asphalt spilled onto him, Wade said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Darrell Sheriff, 41, was underneath the truck working on a hydraulic line when the tailgate opened and asphalt fell on him, The Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">His family said he was a \u201cgood, hard-working family man,\u201d Wade said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Police will continue to investigate, but the incident appears to have been an accident, Wade said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/man-working-dump-truck-mississippi-fatally-buried-hot-asphalt-rcna178753\">Nbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was killed Monday fixing a dump truck in Mississippi when scalding asphalt fell on him, police said. Officers responded to a call about an accident about 10:30 a.m.,&nbsp;Jackson Police Chief Joseph Wade\u2002said. Officers found the private contractor, who was tasked with picking up asphalt, \u201cburied under hot asphalt,&#8221; Wade said. &#8220;It appeared to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":34353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1152],"tags":[31083,1247,31084,1350,1962,5372],"class_list":["post-34352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanrights","tag-asphalt","tag-death","tag-dump-truck","tag-man","tag-mississippi","tag-repair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34354,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34352\/revisions\/34354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}