{"id":380646,"date":"2026-08-25T13:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/380646\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T13:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:10:10","slug":"construction-worker-dies-after-being-pulled-from-retention-pond-following-excavator-mishap-in-davie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/380646\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction worker dies after being pulled from retention pond following excavator mishap in Davie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 25, 2026 at 8:39 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0August 25, 2026 at 8:47 AM<\/p>\n<p>Tyrone Smith, 66, died after being transported to Broward Health Medical Center, police say lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4SU3RPLCVJGSRDX5OGKGW3A4WU.jpeg\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/>(WPLG) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DAVIE, Fla.  \u2014 A 66-year-old construction worker has died after he was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/08\/24\/rescuers-pull-man-from-retention-pond-in-critical-condition-after-davie-excavator-mishap\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/08\/24\/rescuers-pull-man-from-retention-pond-in-critical-condition-after-davie-excavator-mishap\/\"> pulled from a retention pond in Davie<\/a> Monday following a mishap with an excavator, authorities confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Davie police, Tyrone Smith died after being transported to Broward Health Medical Center Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the incident occurred at a construction site in the 2200 block of Shotgun Road, east of the I-75 interchange with Royal Palm Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officer Julia Ross, a DPD spokesperson, said the agency responded to reports of a \u201cpossible drowning,\u201d saw the excavator \u201csubmerged\u201d in the pond, and rescuers were able to pull the man from the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officials from Davie Fire Rescue told Local 10 News that the operator was in cardiac arrest when rescuers found him; he was taken to Broward Health Medical Center where he died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Tuesday that the incident appeared to be accidental. OSHA is now investigating, along with police. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 25, 2026 at 8:39 AM Updated:\u00a0August 25, 2026 at 8:47 AM Tyrone Smith, 66, died after being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-380646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380646","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=380646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}