City’s police said first responders got the call to the Marathon Petroleum facility around 4:15 p.m. after reports that a contractor suffered an injury.
The victim was a contractor who was working at an MPLX facility, when he suffered an injury Friday, September 18 at the site “during an incident.” Emergency workers transported him to a medical facility, where he ended up pronounced dead.
“Any loss of life at one of our facilities is unacceptable,” the statement read. “We operate our facilities with the highest commitment to the safety and health of our workers and the community, and our goal is an incident-free and injury-free workplace.”
The company representative said appropriate notifications went out and an investigation into the incident is ongoing.
A cause of death for the worker is still unknown. Additional details of the incident remain under investigation.