SEATTLE – A 49-year-old Boeing employee died Tuesday after an accident at the company’s Auburn plant, Boeing spokesman Doug Webb said.
The maintenance engineer was working on a piece of equipment when a hydraulic hose broke loose and hit him in the head, Webb said. The man was taken to Harborview Medical Center and died at 11:23 a.m., about an hour after the accident occurred, hospital spokeswoman Marsha Rule said.
The man’s name was not immediately released.
Webb said an investigation would be made into the cause of the accident.
“We are deeply sorry and our thoughts are with his family,” Webb said.
Boeing’s Auburn plant, one of a few massive production facilities throughout the Puget Sound, makes parts for Boeing’s commercial airplanes. The plant employs thousands of workers.
Seattle
Loner whale monitored: Whale experts are keeping an eye on a young killer whale that has been swimming in central Puget Sound, apparently alone. Killer whales usually travel in family groups, or pods. The male orca has been spotted in recent days between West Seattle and Vashon Island. It’s about 11 feet long and experts estimate it is about 2 1/2 years old. Kelley Balcomb of the Center for Whale Research in Friday Harbor said the whale appears healthy, but it is not normal for it to be away from its family group.
Ilwaco
Pilot in fatal crash identified: The pilot killed in the weekend crash of a small plane near this southwest Washington town has been identified as Denny E. Moore. Moore, 61, of Ilwaco, was the only person on board when the plane crashed while attempting to land at the Port of Ilwaco Airport at about 12:30 p.m. Sunday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration regional operations center in Renton. Moore was a student pilot.
McChord Air Base
Reservists will go on Cuba flights: Several Air Force reservists with medical training are heading out this week to serve aboard military cargo planes transferring Taliban and al-Qaida detainees from Afghanistan to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The flight nurses and aeromedical technicians from the 446th Airlift Wing – on hand in case a medical need arises during the flights – will undergo two days of intensive training in how to handle the detainees, who are considered hard-core terrorists. As of Monday, there were 413 Taliban and al-Qaida detainees under U.S. control in Afghanistan, U.S. officials said.
Lakewood
Man dies in fire: The body of a 76-year-old man was found inside a mobile home that was heavily damaged by fire early Tuesday, firefighters said. A neighbor reported the fire about 4 a.m. Flames were coming out the front when firefighters arrived. Neighbors said the man whose body was found in the ashes had lived in the mobile home in this Tacoma suburb for several years. Cause of the fire was under investigation.
Vancouver
Skater faces eviction: Tonya Harding’s landlord has filed a lawsuit to evict the former Olympic figure skater and her roommate from a three-bedroom riverfront home. Landlord Dale E. Anderson claims Harding and her former manager Linda Lewis owe him $4,530 in rent, according to court documents filed Monday in Clark County Superior Court. Harding, 31, and Lewis have been renting the 1,300-square-foot three-bedroom, two-bathroom ranch house overlooking the Columbia River since August 2000, court documents say. Once a top figure skater, Harding’s life has been swirled in scandal since a knee-whacking attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan before the 1994 U.S. National Championships and the Winter Olympics. After finishing eighth in the Olympics that year, Harding pleaded guilty to hindering prosecution and was stripped of her national championship title. Harding’s last court appearance was in May 2000, when she was sentenced to three days in the Clark County Jail for assaulting her then-boyfriend with a hubcap.
Two arrested after body found: A Vancouver, Wash., woman’s body has been found in her basement, and her daughter-in-law and the daughter-in-law’s brother have been arrested, Clark County sheriff’s deputies say. Marlyne Johnson, 58, may have been attacked when she interrupted a burglary at her $308,000 home in Brush Prairie, sheriff’s Sgt. Dave Trimble said Monday. An autopsy showed she died of a blow to the head. Her daughter-in-law, Sophia S. Johnson, 23, was arrested early Monday and the younger woman’s brother, Sean A. Correia, 19, was arrested Saturday night, both for investigation of first-degree murder, robbery and burglary.
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