EULESS -- An Arlington man was killed Tuesday night when a heavy steel plate that he was cleaning fell on him at a manufacturing plant, police said Wednesday.
No other injuries were reported.
Royce Bunkley, 53, was pronounced dead Tuesday night at Camtech Precision Manufacturing in the 1400 block of Westpark Way, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner’s office. Bunkley died shortly after 9 p.m. Tuesday.
According to police reports, Bunkley was underneath the suspended 5,000-pound steel plate, cleaning it. At some point, the 13-foot long and 8-foot-wide plate fell on him, police said Wednesday.
Police had not determined what caused the plate to drop.
OSHA officials were scheduled to be on the scene today to investigate the accident, police said.
The Euless company was cited in 2007 for four safety violations, one of them classified as serious. The issues were resolved later that year, according to records of the Occupational and Safety Health Administration.
The Euless plant makes aircraft engines and engine parts, records show.
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