LEHI, Utah — A construction worker who failed to return home the night before was found dead at a Lehi site Thursday morning.
The Lehi Fire Department reported the man's body was found at a site located in the area of 3200 North and 1200 West. Crews responded to the site after the man's wife reported that she had gone looking for him when he did not return home the night before.
Official below gives update on worker found dead the Lehi site:
Fellow crew members and his wife discovered the man's body before first responders arrived at 8 a.m. According to officials, he was found pinned against a forklift boom truck.
"It appeared that the patient had been working on a boom forklift and while doing that, somehow he became entrapped, the boom trapped him between the engine compartment, the cab and the boom," explained Lehi Battalion Chief Shad Hatfield.
It's not clear how the man became trapped by the equipment and his death is currently under investigation.
