Indiana state officials are investigating an Oct. 18 fatal accident at a Georg Utz Inc. injection molding plant in Edinburgh, where an employee was reportedly fatally struck by a mold dangling from a crane.
Local media reports said that Charles Carson, 66, of Elizabethtown, was working on the shop floor shortly after noon on Oct. 18 when he was hit in the head by a piece of a mold or assembly that apparently came loose.
A spokeswoman for the Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration said the agency has opened an investigation into Carson's death but did not provide further details.
According to the Daily Journal in Franklin, Ind., Bartholomew County Coroner Clayton Nolting said that Carson did not have any signs of life when firefighters and medics responded to the incident, at 12:08 pm.
The coroner ruled that the preliminary cause of death is blunt force trauma to the head, the paper said, with the coroner's investigation continuing.
The mold was suspended by a crane but some part of it apparently came loose, the paper said. Carson's online obituary said he worked as a toolmaker at the Utz plant. The paper said he had worked there for several years.
The plant is part of Bremgarten, Switzerland-based Georg Utz Holding AG, which has 1,350 employees at eight locations in Europe, North America and Asia. It makes reusable transport and storage containers and pallets, and opened the Edinburgh plant in 2009.