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OSHA To Look Into Work Accident
Kenneth 'Kenny' Vaughn, 38, was killed this month when a front-end loader he had been working on fell and crushed him. He died from blunt trauma August 9 at Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg.
Manatee County sheriff's deputies said that on the evening of August 8, Vaughn was using one front-end loader to lift up another to reach that vehicle's undercarriage.
He'd been removing an axle from the propped-up loader -- which doesn't run and was used for parts -- when the loader fell.
A Dakin employee who had been with Vaughn ran to get help, the sheriff's deputy said. Co-workers got another loader to lift the machinery off Vaughn.
An emergency helicopter flew Vaughn to Bayfront Medical, where he died a day later.
The federal Occupational Safety & Health Administration, which investigates all workplace fatalities, is looking into Vaughn's death at the Dakin Dairy farm.