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Brooklyn Worker Yuquan Chen Crushed By Granite Slabs

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the New York Police Department are investigating an on-the-job accident in Brooklyn that left one man dead. According to the New York Daily News, 47-year-old Yuquan Chen of Gravesend died when a number of granite slabs fell onto his head and crushed him. The man died instantly at the time of the worker accident, around 9:30 am on Monday, December 7.

The fatal worker accident took place at 1339 61st St., the site of First Choice Supply located in Borough Park. Although his coworkers lifted the granite countertops with a forklift, the man was pronounced dead at the scene of the on-the-job accident.

The OSHA will explore whether any workplace safety violations that could have contributed to the accident, though no prior safety violations or injury incidents have ever before been reported from the First Choice Supply address.