Accident Kills Pilgrim’s Pride Employee
Posted/updated on: July 29, 2011 at 2:42 am
MOUNT PLEASANT – The Occupational Safety Health Administration is investigating the death of a Pilgrim’s Pride employee. It happened around 1:00 Wednesday morning at the company’s protein conversion plant in Mount Pleasant. Pilgrim’s Pride spokesman Gary Rhodes said night supervisor Jimmy Bynum was pinned under the back wheels of a truck that was backing into the protein conversion bay. Bynum, a 25 year employee with Pilgrim’s Pride, was first rushed to Titus Regional Hospital. He was the flown to Tyler’s East Texas Medical Center, where he died.
