A public works employee was killed on Wednesday while assisting the ongoing snow removal efforts in Buffalo, New York.
A public works employee was killed on Wednesday while assisting the ongoing snow removal efforts in Buffalo, New York, in an accident that local officials called"heartbreaking" as they confirmed that an investigation into the death is underway.
The employee, who has not been identified, worked for the city for decades, said Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown at awhere he was joined by police commissioner Joseph Gramaglia. Based on a preliminary investigation, at around 11:15 a.m., the employee was fatally struck by a high lift vehicle that was shoveling snow and hit him while driving in reverse, according to Gramaglia. "We are heartbroken.
Whiteout conditions were already in place in Buffalo, N.Y. late on Nov. 17, 2022, at the start of what forecasters said was a mega snowstorm that could dump as much as four feet on parts of the region before ending over the weekend.Authorities are conducting an accident investigation to determine exactly what occurred leading up to the employee's death, which will include an inspection of the vehicles involved, the police commissioner said.
"These are always tough scenes, and it's compounded when it's a friend and when it's a person who's well-known to those who are on the scene investigating the accident as well as the coworkers," said Gramaglia."So our hearts go out to the family. Our hearts go out to the workers out here that have been working so hard for days on end. It's a terrible loss."
The citywide efforts followed a snowstorm last week that New York Gov. Kathy Hochul called"historic" as it dumped potentiallyon various cities and towns east of Lakes Erie and Ontario. Parts of Buffalo were hit quite hard by the storm, with the National Weather Service recording 77 inches in Orchard Park, just south of Buffalo, on Saturday.
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