Irving

Man Dies After Industrial Accident at Irving Car Wash

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NBC 5 News

A 39-year-old man is dead after getting his leg trapped while working on a machine at a car wash Friday afternoon in Irving, police say.

The incident happened at about 3:40 p.m. at Wash Masters Car Wash at the intersection of Interstate Highway 635 and MacArthur Boulevard, Irving police said.

Police said the man's let got trapped while he was working on a machine. When officers arrived, they applied a tourniquet on his leg and performed CPR until the Irving Fire Department arrived.

Firefighters freed the man, identified Monday as 39-year-old Luis Enrique Acosta Medrano of Garland, from the machine and transported him to Parkland Hospital where he died from his injuries, police said.

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