‘Rushed’ job, ‘oversights’ led to fatal workplace accident at Port San Antonio, police say

The San Antonio Police Department cited a “rushed” job and “several apparent oversights” as factors in a September accident at Port San Antonio that left a prolific inventor and entrepreneur dead.

David Monroe, the founder and CEO of the San Antonio Museum of Science and Technology, was killed when a jet engine that he and a colleague were unloading fell onto him at a loading dock at Boeing Center at Tech Port. The engine was to be used as an exhibit.

Police records released to the San Antonio Express-News give new details of the mishap that killed 72-year-old Monroe and left co-worker, Adam Ortiz, traumatized. A federal workplace safety probe into the accident is still ongoing…

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