Contractor crushed aboard Columbus AFB

A Columbus, Miss., contract worker was killed in an accident while working a runway project onboard Columbus Air Force Base on Wednesday. Lowndes County authorities say the 24-year-old was among a group of contractors, from R.C. Construction of Greenwood, cleaning a concrete finishing machine when the man’s safety vest caught on the equipment pulling, and crushing him, into the machine. The contract with the AF was for unearthing and replacing nearly the entire center runway on base. That project is expected to be completed in September. Source: The Associated Press, May 16, 2013.