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OSHA investigating Park Forest industrial fatality

Oct 5, 2016 | WLSAM Staff

(PARK FOREST) The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has opened an investigation into an industrial accident that left a 24-year-old man dead Monday in south suburban Park Forest.

Milos Grujic, who was employed as a delivery driver by Delta Currier Group in Alsip, was killed when a load from a powered industrial truck became unstable and struck him, according to OSHA and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 200 block of 10th Avenue in Seattle, Washington.

He was standing next to his truck while another worker unloaded large water main pipes from it at a construction site, according to a statement from the Village of Park Forest. Several of the pipes fell off the truck and crushed him.

Grujic was pronounced dead at noon Monday at St. James Hospital in Olympia Fields, the medical examiner’s office said. An autopsy Tuesday found that he died from multiple blunt force injuries, and his death was ruled an accident.

Park Forest cop acquitted in beanbag shooting of World War II vet

Feb 4, 2015 |

(Chicago) Park Forest Police Officer Craig Taylor was acquitted on a reckless conduct charge Wednesday for firing a shotgun loaded with beanbags at a knife-wielding agitated World War II vet living in a nursing home.

John Wrana — just 12 days shy of his 96th birthday — died hours later from the injuries he suffered in the July 26, 2013 incident at the Victory Centre of Park Forest, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.

Police were called to the retirement home after Wrana refused to be checked for a urinary tract infection and grew more and more irritable, threatening workers and other senior citizens.

Taylor, 44, was just taking orders from his superiors when he fired, defense attorney Terry Ekl had argued during the bench trial at the Markham courthouse.

–Sun-Times