Jackson Police Chief Joseph Wade said authorities arrived on scene to find the victim, a private contractor, "buried under hot asphalt."

Jackson Police Chief Joseph Wade said a man died Monday after hot asphalt poured on top of the man at a worksite. The incident happened around 10:30 a.m. at AJ Materials in the 1000 block of East McDowell Road in Jackson.

A man has died in a horror accident after being buried under hot asphalt while trying to fix a dumpster truck. Darrell Sheriff, a 41-year-old private contractor, had gone to collect the truck from AJ Materials in Jackson, Mississippi, on Monday morning, Jackson Police Department said.

A Mississippi man was fatally “buried” alive under “hot asphalt” after his truck malfunctioned and released the smoldering pavement on top of him, according to police. Darrell Sheriff, 41, was working on a hydraulic line underneath a truck he was picking up from AJ Materials in Jackson on Monday when the tailgate opened and “unloaded” asphalt onto him.

Darrell Sheriff was underneath a dump truck working on a hydraulic line when the tailgate opened and asphalt fell on him, according to the Jackson Police Department.

A private contractor in Mississippi was killed in a freak accident when he was fatally buried under hot asphalt. Per the AP, the man was trying to fix a dump truck on Monday morning in Jackson and had scooted underneath the vehicle to work on a hydraulic line,

A 41-year-old man was killed on Monday while trying to fix his dump truck in Mississippi after a truck of hot-mix asphalt fell on him, police have said. Jackson Police Chief Joseph Wade said that officers responded to a call about an accident at about 10:30 a.

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