{"id":309431,"date":"2026-06-16T17:56:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/309431\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T17:56:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:56:28","slug":"florida-tire-store-employee-killed-after-being-pinned-by-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/309431\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida tire store employee killed after being pinned by truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBryan Thomas Giarrantano, a 24-year-old employee at Atlantic Tire in Stuart died after being pinned against a concrete wall by a truck in the service area.  Police said the accident occurred at 705 Southeast Monterey Road when an 83-year-old man driving his truck onto a ramp in the service bay area accelerated too quickly, hitting the technician.  Your neighborhood: Local coverage from WPBF 25 News\u201cThis very unfortunate incident happens and results in the death of a young man who is at work doing the right things and now the employees all have to deal with that trauma at the same time the police are conducting a criminal investigation,\u201d said Flamur Zenelovic, chief of police for the Stuart Police Department.  Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it here.No charges have been filed so far. Stuart police and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are investigating.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tSTUART, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Thomas Giarrantano, a 24-year-old employee at Atlantic Tire in Stuart died after being pinned against a concrete wall by a truck in the service area.  <\/p>\n<p>Police said the accident occurred at 705 Southeast Monterey Road when an 83-year-old man driving his truck onto a ramp in the service bay area accelerated too quickly, hitting the technician.  <\/p>\n<p>Your neighborhood: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/local-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local coverage from WPBF 25 News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis very unfortunate incident happens and results in the death of a young man who is at work doing the right things and now the employees all have to deal with that trauma at the same time the police are conducting a criminal investigation,\u201d said Flamur Zenelovic, chief of police for the Stuart Police Department.  <\/p>\n<p>Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/article\/get-wpbf-25-news-on-the-go\/999316\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No charges have been filed so far. Stuart police and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are investigating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryan Thomas Giarrantano, a 24-year-old employee at Atlantic Tire in Stuart died after being pinned against a concrete&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[129103,129106,126858,18747,129105,129104,675,677,132,171,173,172,16490,49047,129102,58266,129101,6525,189],"class_list":["post-309431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-24-year-old-employee","tag-83-year-old-man","tag-atlantic-tire","tag-chief","tag-flamur-zenelovic","tag-florida-tire-store-employee","tag-local-coverage","tag-neighborhood","tag-police","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-result","tag-same-time","tag-service-area","tag-stuart-police","tag-tire-store-employee-killed-in-stuart-after-being-pinned-by-truck","tag-truck","tag-wpbf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}