Newberry, FL — Police have identified 74-year-old Wayne Norton as the man who died after being thrown from a bucket truck in Newberry, Florida, on Tuesday, June 23, 2015. The accident happened on Southwest 46th Avenue, around 1:30 in the afternoon.
Norton was in the bucket truck removing tree limbs that had been damaged in a recent storm when the boom of the bucket truck he was standing in failed, throwing him 30 feet to the ground below.
Officials pronounced Norton dead at the scene.
Norton was an employee of Alachua Tree Service Inc. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is currently investigating the accident.
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Local reports say that the bucket truck Norton was standing in failed. Why did it fail? One report I read said that the truck being used was an older model. If that was the case, why was it being used? If the vehicle was older, and the possibility that its bucket could fail was not unforeseeable, why was the truck being used at all? That’s definitely one question that should be answered. But to tell you the truth, the truck involved in the accident just needs to be inspected. A machinery’s age is definitely something that gets taken into account when investigating an accident. But in many cases, manufacturers can be held liable if it turns out that their machinery was defective and led to an injury. I don’t know if that was the case here, but it’s definitely something I’d want looked into.
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