Valencia, CA – A Castaic business owner died after being crushed by thousands of pounds of granite slabs at his warehouse, officials said Tuesday.
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Jacob Israel Margalit, 44-year-old married father of two and owner of Golden West Tile and Stone, died Monday night in the 29000 block of Avenue Sherman in Castaic. He was trying to unload 12-by-8-foot slabs of stone tile from a trailer about 7:45 p.m. when they fell on him, authorities said.
“The slabs came loose and fell against (Margalit) and pinned him against the side wall of the trailer,” said Los Angeles County sheriff’s Sgt. Bill Marsh of the Homicide Bureau. “Each of these slabs can weigh between 800 and 1,000 pounds apiece.”
Paramedics pronounced Margalit dead at 8:20 p.m. before a rescue team removed the slabs with a crane, authorities said.
Officials from the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner and the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or Cal/OSHA, are also investigating the death, Marsh said.
Last month a similar episode happened to a Chinese man in a Boro park warehouse.
Baruch Dayan Emet
Baruch Dayan Haemes. How horrible. I hope he did not suffer.
About 2 months ago somebody I know was going onto his ‘boom truck’, when a few steel beams weighing in at about a ton each fell on him, B”H he “ONLY” suffered a few broken bones, ribs and a broken shoulder…
b”h! i know him too! b”h he was wearing a hard hat!
You will be so terribly missed Jacob. May you rest in peace. All of us are going to miss you 🙁
B’D’H ,We should all pray for his family.