Crime & Safety
'Industrial Mishap' Claims Worker's Life
The man was working at J and M Wood Products, a Lockport sawmill.
LOCKPORT, IL — A man was killed Monday afternoon at a Lockport sawmill.
Brad Harders, 38, was pronounced dead about 2 p.m. at the emergency room of Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox.
Harders was killed in an “industrial mishap,” according to Will County Coroner Patrick O’Neil’s office.
Harders was at J&M Wood Products on South Archer Avenue, the coroner’s office said in a statement.
An autopsy was scheduled for later today.
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