12-year-old boy killed in construction site accident

 A horrible construction site accident ended in the death of a twelve-year-old boy.

The accident took place at a construction site in Azle, Texas, where a crew from American Gunite Co. was installing an in-ground residential pool in the Covered Bridge Estates subdivision.

At the scene was a truck whose bed was filled with sand. The victim and his 8-year-old brother climbed into the bed of the truck to play in the sand.

After a few minutes in the truck, says the younger brother, the boy was buried in the sand where he eventually suffocated. The younger brother was buried up to his waist in the sand mixture.

The disappearance of the two boys was not noticed until the hose used to pump out the sand became clogged. Upon realizing that the boys were stuck in the sand, workers immediately began digging the boys out with shovels and performed CPR on the victim until paramedics arrived.

The 12-year-old was pronounced dead at Cook Children’s Medical Center. The 8-year-old boy had a broken leg.

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