Worker’s death to be probed by labor dept

The Virginia Department of Labor and Industry has opened an investigation that could last six months into the industrial accident that killed a Burris Logistics worker in Lyndhurst, officials said Monday.
A forklift pinned Matt Megginson, 27, of Greenville, at the food distribution plant early Friday morning
Labor and Industry spokeswoman Jennifer Wester said the investigation started the same day of the accident.
A Burris official in Milford, Del., said “our thoughts and prayers are with the family” and declined to comment further.
Wester said investigators will be looking to see if there were any Virginia Occupational and Safety health violations.
Fines, penalties or citations are possible as is a finding of no violations, Wester said.
The initial report would be turned over to the Verona field office of Labor and Industry before coming to Richmond for review by senior management and legal personnel, she said.
The Department of Labor and Industry Web site said that in 2007, that contact with workplace objects and equipment accounted for 23 deaths in Virginia, 16 percent of the commonwealth’s workplace deaths.