EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Police in Texas are investigating after a man was killed Wednesday morning at a construction site in Northwest El Paso.<\/p>\n
The incident happened around 10 a.m. on Paseo del Norte between Northern Pass Drive and Canyon Wren Avenue, police said.<\/p>\n
Man killed after heavy machinery falls on him at Northwest El Paso construction site (Credit: KFOX14)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
El Paso Police Department public information officers said heavy machinery fell on a man in his mid-30s. The department\u2019s Crimes Against Persons unit is leading the investigation.<\/p>\n
Representatives with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) were also at the scene conducting a separate investigation. Medical examiners later arrived, followed by a tow truck used to remove a construction vehicle.<\/p>\n
Police said they were awaiting the results of the investigations before releasing the victim\u2019s identity and notifying his family.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are several individuals involved \u2014 the businesses, OSHA \u2014 so that\u2019s going to be up to the investigators how they decide to do that,\u201d Detective Oviedo told KFOX14\/CBS4. \u201cBut our condolences do go out to the families.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Police in Texas are investigating after a man was killed Wednesday morning at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-425041","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\/425041","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=425041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}