{"id":14661,"date":"2025-10-21T22:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/14661\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T22:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:40:12","slug":"man-killed-after-forklift-overturns-on-him-at-nw-harris-county-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/14661\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed after forklift overturns on him at NW Harris County business"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forklift overturns at Harris County business (Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston – All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas \u2013 A man is dead after authorities say a forklift overturned on him, killing him.<\/p>\n

It happened around 3:45 p.m. at Dixie Foundation Drilling in the 5400 block of Killough Street, just off Antoine Drive.<\/p>\n

According to the Harris County Sheriff\u2019s Office, a woman called and said a worker had flipped in the forklift.<\/p>\n

The licensed forklift operator, in his 50s, appeared to have been moving something heavy when surveillance video showed the forklift start to collapse onto him. <\/p>\n

EMS arrive and found him outside the building. He was confirmed dead at 4:12 p.m.<\/p>\n

Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

About the AuthorChristian Terry<\/a><\/p>\n

Christian Terry covered digital news in Tyler and Wichita Falls before returning to the Houston area where he grew up. He is passionate about weather and the outdoors and often spends his days off on the water fishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forklift overturns at Harris County business (Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston – All rights reserved.) HARRIS COUNTY, Texas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6063,11924,405,56,58,57,11925],"class_list":["post-14661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-accident","tag-forklift","tag-harris-county","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-industrial-accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14661","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=14661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}