{"id":114737,"date":"2026-01-07T23:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/114737\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T23:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:14:10","slug":"63-year-old-employee-found-dead-inside-tanker-trailer-in-annaville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/114737\/","title":{"rendered":"63-year-old employee found dead inside tanker trailer in Annaville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 63-year old man was found dead inside a tanker trailer in Annaville.<\/p>\n<p>It happened just before 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Fleet Pride Service Center on the 7700 block of Interstate-37.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767827650_746_.jpeg\" alt=\"FleetPride1.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"960\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Joe Escobedo, KRIS 6 News<\/p>\n<p>According to Tony Perez with the Corpus Christi Fire Department, the employee had been unaccounted for for more than 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>When units arrived, they found the man in the tanker trailer unresponsive. Hazmat and rescue crews were on the scene and pulled him from the tank.<\/p>\n<p>He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest local news updates, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>, or download the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/about-us\/kris-6-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News App. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch all the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/KRIS6News\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News stories and more on our YouTube page<\/a>. Subscribe today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 63-year old man was found dead inside a tanker trailer in Annaville. It happened just before 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[18842,155,157,156,50490,50491,50492,50493,4910],"class_list":{"0":"post-114737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-annaville","9":"tag-corpus-christi","10":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","11":"tag-corpus-christi-news","12":"tag-fleet-pride","13":"tag-fleet-pride-employee","14":"tag-industrial-death","15":"tag-tanker-trailer-death","16":"tag-veronica-flores-herrera"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}