By Associated Press - Thursday, January 19, 2017

WASHINGTON TWP., N.J. (AP) - Authorities say a New Jersey man has been killed after he was pinned under slabs of marble.

Police in Washington Township said that 60-year-old Johnnie Tharp died in the accident Thursday at the business where he worked, Dente Trading Marble & Granite.

It wasn’t immediately known how the accident happened.

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Rescue crews responding to the business found the man unconscious and performed CPR on him. He was taken to a hospital, where he died.

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