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.
The delayed passing of the coronavirus relief package is impacting COVID-19 testing at New Hampshire hospitals.
Hospitals were contracted with the state to help conduct coronavirus testing across communities. But those contracts, along with the resources and funding through the CARES Act to support them, ended at the end of the year.
Officials say Congress did not approve the relief bill soon enough to allow states to access additional funding before it expired.
Other testing sites in the state, like city public health and national guard sites, say they weren t impacted by this change.
Jamie LaRoche, director of provider network operations at Lakes Region General Healthcare, says it may become a challenge as demand for tests remains high.