Mississippi man 'buried under hot asphalt' while repairing dump truck

The 41-year-old man was working on a hydraulic line under the truck in Mississippi's capital city when the tailgate opened and asphalt fell on him, Jackson police said in a post on Facebook on Monday.

Jackson Police Chief Joseph Wade told reporters at the scene that authorities were notified of the incident around 10:30 a.m. Monday.

When they arrived on scene, they found the victim, a private contractor, “buried under hot asphalt.”

“It appeared to be a malfunction of his dump truck,” Wade said. “The vehicle he was here in to pick up asphalt while trying to fix the mitigation issue actually dumped all of the hot asphalt on him.”