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DELLE, Utah (AP) -- Police say a Salt Lake City-area man has been killed after being crushed by a steel structure that collapsed on him as he tried to topple it.
Tooele County Emergency Management spokesman Wade Mathews says Ronald Samford, 50, died Thursday.
Samford was the owner of Rocky Mountain Construction Services, which had been contracted to demolish the Marblehead lime plant. Mathews says the plant had been unused for nearly 15 years.
Mathews says a hopper bin weighing about 100,000 pounds unexpectedly collapsed on Samford, who was dead by the time emergency crews arrived.
Another worker was slightly injured and a third was unhurt.
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