MIDDLETOWN, Ohio -- An employee of a contractor has died after being injured at AK Steel's Middletown Works plant in southwest Ohio.
Machinists and Aerospace Workers union local president Scott Rich says the worker leaned against a controller while working on a lift and was crushed between the lift and a pipe.
Cincinnati-based United Group Services Inc. says the worker died at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton early Wednesday of complications from the Monday afternoon accident.
United Group vice president Kevin Sell says the 47-year-old worker was a highly skilled, veteran employee and that United Group has done work for AK Steel Holding Corp. for 10 years. The worker's name wasn't immediately released.
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating.
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