Construction Worker Killed by Falling Excavator Bucket: Police

A construction worker was crushed to death by a bucket on an excavator on Saturday afternoon, police said. 

The worker was welding the bucket in the air at New Yor Recycling in the South Bronx when it fell on the worker, the NYPD said. The bucket weighed at least 2,000 pounds. 

A coworker called 911, but medics pronounced him dead on the scene. 

The NYPD was investigating but said there was no criminality. 

The victim's name wasn't immediately released. 

Family and friends arrived at the construction site on Exterior Street off the Major Deegan Expressway in tears throughout the afternoon. 

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