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Tampa Man Crushed By Forklift

TAMPA (CBSMiami/AP) - A worker at a Tampa steel supply company has died after being crushed by a forklift.

The incident occurred early Thursday at Infra-Metals when 51-year-old Ricardo McCalop was operating a forklift, said the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

McCalop was using the forklift to move a heavy steel beam. The beam McCalop was transporting bumped into another pile of beams, which caused the forklift to tip over and crush him, officials said.

Further details were not immediately available.

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