Worker Crushed While Manually Moving 800-Pound Stone Slab

A 38-year-old worker, Horacio Prada Dominguez, was fatally crushed while attempting to manually move an approximately 800-pound quartz stone slab at a Rockford, Illinois fabrication business. Dominguez and a coworker were repositioning the slab when it shifted unexpectedly and began to fall toward him. He attempted to brace the slab, but its weight overpowered him and pinned him against another stone slab. First responders freed him, but he had already succumbed to severe crushing injuries. Investigators reported that the slabs were being moved by hand, without the use of available mechanical lifting aids such […]