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Long Island cemetery worker buried alive, dies inside open grave
As the cascading dirt filled the grave, his co-workers at Washington Memorial Park in Mount Sinai tried frantically but unsuccessfully to dig him out.
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A Long Island cemetery worker died at the bottom of an empty grave Thursday in a freak accident, Suffolk County Police said. [ Photo illustration by ASHLEY DYE and LUIS SANTANA | Times ]
By Larry McShane New York Daily News (TNS)
Published Feb. 25
Updated Feb. 25
A Long Island cemetery worker died at the bottom of an empty grave Thursday in a freak accident, Suffolk County Police said.
Rodwin Allicock, 42, of Coram, was on the job around 8:30 a.m. when the seven-foot deep grave collapsed as he worked inside the excavation, according to police.
Published February 25, 2021 •
Updated on February 25, 2021 at 8:22 pm
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In a tragic event seemingly out of a horror film, a cemetery worker was killed when the grave he was digging collapsed on him Thursday morning on Long Island, police say, essentially burying him alive.
Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad detectives are investigating the incident during which the employee at Washington Memorial Park in Middle Island, located in Suffolk County, died. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get the latest breaking news and local stories.
According to police, the man was leveling out the bottom of a grave when the grave collapsed on him at approximately 8:30 a.m. Workers raced to help rescue the man, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. It was not immediately clear how long the man was trapped for.