PORT TOWNSEND — A 69-year-old man was found crushed under the tire of his truck early Wednesday morning in an industrial park south of town.
Allen Clifford of Sedro-Woolley was making a delivery to Sunshine Propane’s holding facility at about 6 p.m. Wednesday when he called into his Whatcom County employer reporting truck trouble, said Jefferson County Sheriff Tony Hernandez.
Clifford was instructed to drive the truck to Tacoma for repair but after the end of the call was not heard from again, Hernandez said.
At 7:44 a.m., a Sunshine employee arrived at work to find Clifford pinned under the truck’s rear wheel.
Police arrived and called in the State Patrol as well as an investigator for the Bureau of Labor and Industries.
The investigation is still pending, but the death is being treated now as an industrial accident, Hernandez said.
