{"id":381579,"date":"2026-07-21T23:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T23:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/381579\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T23:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T23:07:08","slug":"somerset-man-34-dies-in-new-braunfels-trenching-worksite-accident-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/381579\/","title":{"rendered":"Somerset man, 34, dies in New Braunfels trenching worksite accident under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Comal County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is investigating a fatal worksite accident that claimed the life of a Somerset man Tuesday morning in New Braunfels.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies responded around 11:19 a.m. to the 600 block of Gold Coast Drive after receiving reports of an accident involving a work crew performing trenching operations in the area.<\/p>\n<p>When deputies arrived, they found 34-year-old Cornelio Martinez of Somerset, who was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say Martinez was working alongside a trenching crew when the accident occurred. The exact circumstances surrounding his death remain under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez&#8217;s family has been notified. No additional information has been released at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Comal County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is investigating a fatal worksite accident that claimed the life of a Somerset&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-381579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381579","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=381579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}