Illinois Maintenance Worker Suffocates to Death
Preliminary investigation discovers 47-year-old Donald Tentler was pinned between a crane and bell tower at a shopping center in Geneva, Ill.
A sign maintenance worker suffocated to death on Friday, Feb. 3 while trying to install a sign at Geneva Commons Shopping Center in Illinois.
The incident occurred just before noon. The employee, 47-year-old Donald Tentler, became pinned between a crane and a bell tower and “died of compression asphyxiation due to the mechanical compression of the neck,” Kane County Coroner Rob Russell said in a news release.
