{"id":73173,"date":"2016-02-06T07:30:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T12:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=73173"},"modified":"2016-02-06T07:30:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T12:30:50","slug":"gm-worker-dies-in-industrial-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/02\/06\/gm-worker-dies-in-industrial-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"GM worker dies in industrial accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DEFIANCE (AP) &#8212; A General Motors employee has died at a GM plant in northwest Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>The company said in a statement that the employee died Tuesday afternoon at GM&#8217;s Defiance Casting Operations in Defiance. The worker&#8217;s identity wasn&#8217;t immediately released, and the company&#8217;s statement provided no details on how the death occurred<\/p>\n<p>A dispatcher at the South Richland Township Fire Department says the department responded to a report of an industrial accident at the plant around 1 p.m. Tuesday and is investigating. The dispatcher said he could provide no other information. He says the fire department is investigating with GM and other local authorities.<\/p>\n<p>GM&#8217;s statement says the company was saddened by the death and is working closely with authorities to investigate what happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFIANCE (AP) &#8212; A General Motors employee has died at a GM plant in northwest Ohio. The company said in a statement that the employee died Tuesday afternoon at GM&#8217;s Defiance Casting Operations in Defiance. The worker&#8217;s identity wasn&#8217;t immediately released, and the company&#8217;s statement provided no details on how the death occurred A dispatcher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 12:45:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}