{"id":342359,"date":"2026-06-19T04:25:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/342359\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T04:25:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:25:23","slug":"worker-dies-after-foundation-collapses-during-concrete-pour-at-dallas-apartment-building-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/342359\/","title":{"rendered":"Worker dies after foundation collapses during concrete pour at Dallas apartment building, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 29\u2011year\u2011old worker has died after being trapped under a building when a foundation collapsed during a concrete pour Thursday on Sage Hill Lane in Dallas, just outside the Coppell city limits, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews were called at 3:19 p.m. to the Sage Hill Apartments in the 2200 block of Sage Hill Lane, near Olympus Boulevard. According to Dallas Fire\u2011Rescue, workers were manually digging a tunnel when it collapsed, trapping him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Firefighters had to enter the interior of the structure, cut through the concrete floor, and then remove three feet of dirt in order to extricate the victim, who was deceased,&#8221; DFR said in a release.<\/p>\n<p>Video from the CBS Texas Chopper showed a DFR trench\u2011rescue truck at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The Coppell Fire Department responded in a mutual\u2011aid role with an engine company and a medical unit, but Dallas Fire\u2011Rescue led the incident. Coppell Fire personnel were released and returned to service, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of the Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office and OSHA were called to the site to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas will provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 29\u2011year\u2011old worker has died after being trapped under a building when a foundation collapsed during a concrete&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1254,102,104,103,430,27],"class_list":["post-342359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-coppell","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-north-texas","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342359","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=342359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}