DA: Landscaper killed in Gloucester construction accident

A 27-year-old landscaper was killed in Gloucester this morning in what authorities are calling an apparent construction accident.

The man, whose name Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett's office is withholding pending notification of his family, was an employee of MD MacEachern Landscape and Construction, Blodgett spokeswoman Carrie Kimball-Monahan said.

She said the victim died while using a mini-excavator to dig out part of the foundation at the four-bedroom cottage at 23 Nashua Ave.

The property, she said, "is propped up on a series of I-beams to facilitate the foundation work being done ... Investigators believe that something caught on the elevation lever of the equipment, causing the deceased to become pinned between the equipment and an I-beam."

The victim had been working alone. His body was discovered at 9:30 a.m. by another worker arriving at the site, Kimball-Monahan said.

Foul play is not suspected, she said.

A representative of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating.

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