recalled to WLBT<\/a>\u00a0of the voicemail she heard later. \u201cHe told me he loved me and he wanted to go home.\u201d<\/p>\nAngel Rojas, 24, first tried calling for help as he was pinned at work \u2014 then phoned his wife for a final goodbye. Courtesy Rojas Family<\/p>\n
Rojas was working at the Restland Funeral Home, Cemetery and Crematory on Oct. 20, when one of the massive concrete burial vaults he was tasked with moving to burial sites fell and pinned him to the ground from the waist down.<\/p>\n
While in excruciating pain, he used his phone to call for help first \u2014 and then immediately called his wife and left her the haunting message.<\/p>\n
It took more than 45 minutes to free Angel, which Dallas fire officials said required hydraulic spreaders and air bags \u2014 typically used in car-wreck extractions. He was rushed to the hospital where he died later that day.<\/p>\n
Rojas took the job at the cemetery to provide for his wife and their son, Angel Noel, who turns 4 next month.<\/p>\n
Rojas was working at the Restland Funeral Home, Cemetery and Crematory on Oct. 20, when one of the massive concrete burial vaults he was tasked with moving to burial sites fell and pinned him to the ground from the waist down. WFAA<\/p>\n
Rojas took the job at the cemetery to provide for his wife and their son, Angel Noel, who turns 4 next month. Courtesy Rojas Family<\/p>\n
Now Rojas\u2019 family is accusing the mortuary of gross negligence and is considering a lawsuit.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no way on earth this man should have been operating that machinery alone,\u201d the family\u2019s attorney Matthew Graham told the outlet.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe shouldn\u2019t had been working alone. He shouldn\u2019t had been moving things of that weight alone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The father horrifically crushed to death at a Dallas funeral home managed to call his wife while he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7472,1015,14849,9,11,10,1777,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-22410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-deaths","10":"tag-funeral-homes","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}