Dive Brief:

• A worker died at a construction site in a residential neighborhood in Virginia Beach, Va., on Nov. 13.
• Police were investigating what happened in the incident, which callers told 911 operators began with the man being hit somehow by a piece of heavy equipment..
• The 49-year-old man, who died at the scene, worked for A&W Contractors of Hampton Roads, a site-work and water and sewer contractor, police said.

Dive Insight:

The accident was one of the tragic cases where fire department medics and first responders try to save the victim, but are defeated by the extent of the injuries they find when they arrive. Initial reports did not make clear whether the man was working on the equipment or on the ground or what was going on at the time.