TRACTOR TRAILER BACKS UP AND KILLS PEDESTRIAN
From: New York attorney Gary E. Rosenberg (personal injury and accident attorney and lawyer; serving Brooklyn Queens Bronx; Brooklyn Accident Lawyer)
On Thursday March 17, 2011 a tractor-trailer driving in reverse pinned a Brooklyn resident between the trucks rear bumper and a street sweeper, crushing him to death.
The accident occurred in a recycling plant located in Maspeth, Queens, New York.
The man, identified by a relative as Ciban Pilaxi, age 22, was standing near the entrance to the Maspeth warehouse as the rig backed into the doorway, police said.
He was dead by the time emergency responders arrived at the warehouse on Railroad Place around 11:30 a.m.
Pilaxi's sister-in-law Mirian Huerta, 20, said he came to the United States from Ecuador three years ago. He had worked at the recycling company for about a year, and lived in Bushwick.
Huerta, who spoke to a Daily News reporter outside the recycling facility, said Pilaxi wanted to work, and then go back to Ecuador to be with his mother, sister and brother.
Police officials say there was no criminality on the part of the truck driver, who works for a New Jersey-based company. The warehouse is owned by a company called Boro-Wide Recycling Corp., an NYPD official said. A company representative could not be reached for comment.
The Federal Occupational and Safety Health Administration is investigating the accident, a spokesman said.
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