A 35-year-old man was fatally crushed when an industrial cooling unit fell from a crane in the Bronx on Tuesday morning, the police said.
The police said the unit was being moved when a chain attached to the crane broke at 173rd Street and Grand Concourse. The man was taken to Bronx Lebanon Hospital a few blocks away and was pronounced dead on arrival. His name was not immediately released.
Errol Schneer, a hospital spokesman, said that a private company was removing a temporary portable chiller unit for the winter when the unit struck the man. The man was believed to be an employee of the company.
An investigation is ongoing, and no criminality is suspected.
