A man working in an underground loading dock at the Moscone Center, on Third Street between Folsom and Howard, was killed this morning in what was most likely an industrial accident. According to the Examiner, the man was loading a construction boom onto the trailer of a semitruck when the incident occurred around 6:45am. The medical examiner's office pronounced the man dead at the scene.
"We are saddened to report that a fatal accident occurred this morning at the Moscone Convention Center Expansion project,” said a spokesperson for Webcor Builders, the construction company working at Moscone, in a statement to press. “An employee of a heavy equipment rental company was fatally injured at approximately 6:45am this morning."
"The employee had come to pick up an aerial work platform also commonly known as a high reach boom at Moscone Center and take it back to the rental company. During the process of removing the machine, the man was crushed between the heavy device and a concrete structure.”
