{"id":254576,"date":"2026-07-29T12:58:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254576\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T12:58:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:58:54","slug":"industrial-accident-at-alton-steel-claims-life-of-pennsylvania-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254576\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrial accident at Alton Steel claims life of Pennsylvania man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Industrial accident at Alton Steel claims life of Pennsylvania man<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ALTON, Ill. \u2013 The Madison County Coroner&#8217;s Office has released a preliminary cause of death for a Pennsylvania man who died last week at the former Alton Steel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Coroner Nicholas P. Novacich&#8217;s autopsy says Andrew J. Bengel died of a blunt chest and abdomen trauma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bengal died on the morning of Monday, July 20, at the now-closed steel manufacturer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Honor walk for mother, daughter shooting victims; murder charges filed;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/fox2now.com\/news\/missouri\/honor-walk-for-mother-daughter-shooting-victims-murder-charges-filed\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Honor walk for mother, daughter shooting victims; murder charges filed\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the coroner&#8217;s office, a lifting hook fractured while a crane was operating an overhead lift assembly, sending a heavy chain swinging into Bengel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bengal, of Waterford, Pennsylvania, was pronounced dead at the scene just after 1:10 p.m. He was 56.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A final cause of death will not be issued until all reports are completed. The incident is being investigated by the Alton Police Department, Madison County Coroner&#8217;s Office, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX 2.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/fox2now.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX 2.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Industrial accident at Alton Steel claims life of Pennsylvania man ALTON, Ill. \u2013 The Madison County Coroner&#8217;s Office&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[108532,108351,108350,97546,28,30,29,29255],"class_list":["post-254576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-alton-police-department","tag-alton-steel","tag-andrew-j-bengel","tag-industrial-accident","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-waterford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254576","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=254576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}