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MOUNT SINAI, New York — A cemetery worker was killed when a grave he was digging collapsed on him, burying him under several feet of dirt, police said.
Rodwin Allicock, 42, of Coroam, was working at the bottom of a 7-foot-deep grave at Washington Memorial Park in Mount Sinai, N.Y., when the walls collapsed, Suffolk County police said.
Allicock’s co-workers raced to dig him out but were unable to reach him in time and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Officials from the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration are investigating.
