A 54-year-old man who died when a wall collapsed during expansion work at a Long Beach women\u2019s shelter was mourned by the city\u2019s mayor Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The victim was working on a trench wall at about 5:45 p.m. Tuesday at the Long Beach Rescue Mission Lydia House shelter for women and children in the 1400 block of Pacific Avenue when the power cable trench fell in, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n
A man inside the trench was killed, while two others sustained minor injuries, police said.<\/p>\n
The deceased victim was identified as Martin Rodriguez, who died of mechanical asphyxia beneath a pile of dirt and rubble at a construction site, according to the Los Angeles County medical examiner\u2019s office, which ruled the death accidental.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am heartbroken by the tragic accident at one of our partners\u2019 shelter sites that claimed the life of a longtime worker and injured two others,\u201d Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson posted on the social platform X Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cA man who showed up to work to make an honest living lost his life in a sudden and devastating accident. Our hearts are with his loved ones, his coworkers, the injured workers, and the entire Rescue Mission community as they process this unimaginable loss.\u201d<\/p>\n
Richardson said the investigation into the man\u2019s death \u201cis still in its early stages and many questions remain.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now, our focus is on supporting those impacted and their families and ensuring the injured workers receive the care and support they need,\u201d he continued, while extending \u201ccondolences, prayers and wishes for healing and strength in the difficult days ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 54-year-old man who died when a wall collapsed during expansion work at a Long Beach women\u2019s shelter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,50641,723,169,131,133,132,1556,135522,120901,77],"class_list":["post-325767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-collapse","tag-crime","tag-killed","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-mission","tag-mourned","tag-trench","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}