Last modified: 11/29/2012 11:17:50 AM
LYNDEBOROUGH A Lyndeborough teenager died Friday after being pinned underneath a slab of granite while constructing a new home in Lyndeborough.
Benjamin Foisie, 19, of Lyndeborough, was working on the house he and his family would eventually occupy, on 91 Baldwin Hill Road, when he became trapped under a large piece of granite, according to a press release from Lieutenant Rainsford Deware of the Lyndeborough Police Department issued on Friday.
It was while working on a plot owned by his father, adding a granite block to the landscaping, that the accident occurred. According to published reports, Foisie was attempting to mark the position for a 16-foot-high granite boulder that was to become part of the house’s landscaping. The boulder was held up by an excavator, but the ground, soft because of recent rain and snow, caused the machine to shift, and the rock fell on top of Foisie, pinning him beneath it, reports said.