BLUEFIELD – Soft and wet ground caused a septic truck to slide and then flip on top of a man on Tabor Road, according to new details Monday from the Mercer County Sheriff’s Department.
Deputies and other first responders were dispatched about 2 p.m. Nov. 30 to Tabor Road after Mercer 911 received a call about a septic truck rolling down and landing on top of a person. According to a statement released that day by the sheriff’s department, the man who was pronounced deceased at the scene was the driver.
Deputy N.J. Mason said Monday that the victim was the resident living on the property. The septic truck was on the property for a job.
“The job had been finished by Quality Septic Services,” Mason said. “The truck was parked. There was nobody in the truck, and due to the wet and soft ground, the truck started sliding on the ground, and it caught the deceased, and it took him with it until it flipped over on top of him.”
Mason declined to release the man’s name.
The incident was considered an accident, and no foul play is suspected, Mason said.
Units of the Bluefield Rescue Squad and the Princeton Rescue Squad were dispatched along with the Green Valley-Glenwood Volunteer Fire Department.
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