DURANT – An employee died today at a Durant business when he was hit by a large piece of granite.
The man and a coworker at Allied Stone, 2201 W. Arkansas St., were moving slabs of granite on a forklift at 8:45 a.m. when one of the slabs split down the middle, falling on the man, Durant police Lt. Carrie Wyrick said. The man suffered a head injury and died at the scene, Wyrick said. The identity of the man has not been released. Durant police are still investigating the accident.
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