{"id":1492036,"date":"2026-03-27T16:36:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T21:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1492036"},"modified":"2026-03-30T03:13:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T08:13:26","slug":"longview-employee-cause-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1492036","title":{"rendered":"Cause of death &#8220;workplace accident&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/08\/LongviewCity.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1349715\" \/>LONGVIEW \u2013 Officials have confirmed that City of Longview employee Buddy Powell died earlier this month during a \u201cworkplace accident\u201d when he was hit in the head with a high-pressure water hose. According to our news partner KETK, Gregg County Pct. 1 Justice of the Peace B.H Jameson said, the cause of Powell\u2019s death was determined to be blunt force trauma after being struck by the hose.   Powell was pronounced dead at a local hospital following the incident. It is unknown at this time what caused the incident and whether or not negligence was involved in Powell\u2019s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2013 Officials have confirmed that City of Longview employee Buddy Powell died earlier this month during a \u201cworkplace accident\u201d when he was hit in the head with a high-pressure water hose. According to our news partner KETK, Gregg County Pct. 1 Justice of the Peace B.H Jameson said, the cause of Powell\u2019s death was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1492036\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cause of death &#8220;workplace accident&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1349715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/08\/LongviewCity.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1492036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 23:40:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/08\/LongviewCity.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1492036"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492399,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492036\/revisions\/1492399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1349715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1492036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1492036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1492036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}