A Canadian County employee died Wednesday after a 60-foot piece of steel gas pipe fell off a truck and onto his chest.

District 2 foreman Larry Orr, 42, was helping load the pipe onto a trailer in the shop yard with other workers when the pipe struck him in the leg, knocking him off balance and to the ground. The pipe then rolled off the trailer onto his upper body.

Although emergency workers were able to revive Orr at the scene, he later died during transit to Parkview Hospital.