Frankfort Man Crushed to Death

A 58-year-old Frankfort man is dead after a semitrailer fell on him at the Advanced Mobility manufacturing facility in Monee Tuesday, Chicago Tribune reports.

Leo Micheletto, of the 7500 block of West Silo Drive was working below the trailer, "when another worker unfortunately pierced a hydraulic line," causing the trailer to fall "a foot or two" onto the man, according to the report.

Co-workers used a forklift to raise the trailer off of Micheletto, who sustained "crushing-type" injuries to his chest and lower extremities.

Micheletto was transported to Franciscan St. James Health hospital in Olympia Fields, where he died before he could be airlifted to a trauma center in Chicago.

The incident is under investigation by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

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