Indiana County coroner identifies trapped quarry worker, rules death accidental
The Indiana County Coroner’s Office identified a quarry worker who died after becoming trapped in a limestone hopper on Friday, ruling the death accidental.
First responders were called just before 10:30 a.m. to rescue Eric Matthew Komlosky, Sr., 39, of Indiana, who had become trapped at Ridge Limestone, a quarry on Coleman Road in Young Township.
Komlosky, an employee at Ridge Limestone, was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to the coroner, he had been working inside a stone hopper — a container that holds stone that is being processed — when the operator of a high lift “dumped a load of stone into the stone hopper,” trapping Komlosky.
The operator of the high lift and other workers at the site didn’t know Komlosky was working inside the hopper, the coroner said.
Megan Swift is a TribLive reporter covering trending news in Western Pennsylvania. A Murrysville native, she joined the Trib full time in 2023 after serving as editor-in-chief of The Daily Collegian at Penn State. She previously worked as a Jim Borden Scholarship intern at the Trib for three summers. She can be reached at mswift@triblive.com.
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