{"id":254205,"date":"2026-07-29T00:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254205\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T00:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:52:15","slug":"pennsylvania-man-killed-in-industrial-accident-at-alton-steel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254205\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania man killed in industrial accident at Alton Steel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">ALTON, Ill. (First Alert 4) &#8211; A Pennsylvania man died last week at Alton Steel from an industrial accident, the Madison County Coroner says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Andrew J. Bengel, 56, of Waterford, Pennsylvania, died on July 20 at Alton Steel at 5 Cut Street. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">According to the coroner\u2019s office, a lifting hook fractured, causing a heavy chain to hit Bengel. The preliminary cause of death following an autopsy on Bengel is blunt force trauma to the chest and abdomen trauma. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">The Alton Police Department, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Madison County Coroner\u2019s Office are investigating the death. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KMOV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALTON, Ill. (First Alert 4) &#8211; A Pennsylvania man died last week at Alton Steel from an industrial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[108351,108350,12653,97546,108352,28,30,29,29255],"class_list":["post-254205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-alton-steel","tag-andrew-j-bengel","tag-coroners-office","tag-industrial-accident","tag-madison-county-coroner","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-waterford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}