Jackson Police said officers responded to a call about an accident earlier this week at AJ Materials ... Police Chief Joseph Wade said it appeared there was a malfunction with a dump truck. Wade said it appeared the victim tried to fix the problem when ...

A Mississippi man died in a horrific, freak accident this week after being buried alive in hot asphalt while attempting to fix his dump truck. The incident occurred on, Nov. 4 at AJ Materials in Jackson, MI when contractor Darrell Sheriff, 41, was working ...

A private contractor in Mississippi was killed in a freak accident when he was fatally buried under hot asphalt. Per the AP, the man was trying to fix a dump truck on Monday morning in Jackson and had scooted underneath the vehicle to work on a hydraulic line,