A construction worker has died from an accident at the Kia auto factory site in west Georgia. The Troup County coroner says 47-year-old Ollie Tate of Cartersville was killed Tuesday morning at the plant in West Point. No details on the accident were given. Officials with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are investigating. The 2.4 million-square-foot Kia plant is scheduled to open in November of 2009, and expected to employ at least 25-hundred people.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Worker killed at west Georgia Kia site
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Edgar Treiguts
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1/30/2008 08:12:00 AM
Labels: construction worker, KIA, KIA plant, west georgia, West Point