Truck Accident Lawyer Blog

It is not unusual for truck accidents to seriously injure workers who are on construction sites. Sadly, one such accident resulted in a fatality this week. At about noon on Tuesday, 36-year old Mark Zurcher, of Kinston, TN was killed at a construction site adjacent to the U.S. Highway 70 bypass near Clayton, North Carolina when his truck overturned. Witnesses claim that Mr. Zurcher's truck backed up, and in doing so, turned over and then overturned down an embankment. It appears that the truck's cab was crushed. (There are more and more products liability claims these days dealing with defectively-designed truck cabs which crush when they shouldn't).

Firefighters who responded at the scene were eventually able to remove Mr. Zurcher from the cab of the truck, but Mr. Zurcher was sadly pronounced dead at a local hospital.

An investigation is being conducted to determine if Mr. Zurcher's employer, Pozzolanic Contracting & Supply Company of Knoxville, may have violated safety rules and standards, thereby contributing to this tragedy. According to press reports, two years ago, the same company was fined after another of the company's workers died. An investigation determined after that fatality that the company had failed to have the required back-up alarms on some of its heavy equipment.

Thanks to both the Raleigh News Observer and the Clayton-Cleveland Herald for their reporting of this important story.