22-year-old weightlifter dies after 315-pound barbell crushes his neck in US
Clack Says A Fire Ambulance Took Thomson To A Des Moines Hospital, Where He Was Pronounced Dead.
PTI Ankeny Updated on: 29 Dec 2016, 23:00 PM
Authorities say a 22-year-old man has died after a barbell slipped from his grasp and crushed his neck at a gym in central Iowa.
The accident occurred Monday morning at Elite Edge Transformation Center in Ankeny, about 10 miles north of Des Moines. A spokesman for the center, Mark Yontz, said on Thursday that Kyle Thomson was bench-pressing 315 pounds when the barbell slipped.
Ankeny Fire Chief James Clack says the barbell fell on Thomson’s neck. Clack says a fire ambulance took Thomson to a Des Moines hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Yontz says there were spotters watching Thomson on the bench. Iowa State University spokeswoman Annette Hacker says Thomson was a student there and lived in Pleasant Hill.
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First Published : 29 Dec 2016, 22:50 PM
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