Austin Flores, the H-E-B warehouse employee who died days after an accident at work, feared clocking in every day, his mother Brenda Flores says. Her 27-year-old son spent the last seven years employed at the H-E-B Distribution Center on 4710 N Pan Am Expressway near Rittiman Road, the same location where another employee died after showing signs of distress while working nearly six months ago.
Brenda told MySA that her son went to work at the H-E-B warehouse on Saturday, April 4, as he always did. However, that morning, she said Austin told her he was operating a pallet jack in a hallway when another employee operating a forklift came out of a refrigerated room and struck him on the side. Austin jumped off the pallet jack and hit the concrete floor, she added.
The grocer did not provide many details about what type of accident occurred. It is unclear if the injuries he sustained from the accident led to his death…