{"id":18533,"date":"2025-02-07T20:26:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T20:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/trucker-crushed-by-5000-pounds-of-steel-during-unloading\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T20:26:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T20:26:37","slug":"trucker-crushed-by-5000-pounds-of-steel-during-unloading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/trucker-crushed-by-5000-pounds-of-steel-during-unloading\/","title":{"rendered":"Trucker crushed by 5,000 pounds of steel during unloading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_84\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>A truck driver is dead after being crushed by a load of steel during the unloading process on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The accident happened on Wednesday, February 5th at Lippert Components in Goshen, Indiana at about 9:40 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southbendtribune.com\/story\/news\/local\/2025\/02\/07\/workplace-accident-5k-pounds-of-steel-kills-man-at-lippert-components-plant-in-goshen\/78327102007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">South Bend Tribune<\/a>, 36-year-old Milos Jovanovic was at the plant to deliver a load of steel tubing. During the unloading process, he was hit by a bundle of steel tubing weighing about 5,000 pounds, which struck his entire body.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jovanovic was then transported by medics to a nearby airfield for a med flight, but was pronounced dead at the airfield. Goshen Police arrived at the scene of the accident about 45 minutes later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police have not specified whether Jovanovic, employees at Lippert, or both were involved in the unloading process. The plant previously submitted to an inspection in August 2023 for a health concern.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jovanovic was working for a trucking company out of Chicago. No further information has been released.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/2025\/trucker-crushed-by-5000-pounds-of-steel-during-unloading\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A truck driver is dead after being crushed by a load of steel during the unloading process on Thursday.\u00a0 The accident happened on Wednesday, February 5th at Lippert Components in Goshen, Indiana at about 9:40 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0 According to South Bend Tribune, 36-year-old Milos Jovanovic was at the plant to deliver a load of steel tubing&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}