Man killed in accident at Shawnee FedEx facility identified

Posted: May 7, 2014 - 10:48am
Updated: May 9, 2014 - 3:09am

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Shawnee Police are investigating after a 21-year-old died from injuries sustained at a FedEx Ground sorting facility Tuesday morning.

Police have identified the man as Nicholas Huston.

Johnson County Med-Act was called to the facility, located at 8000 Cole Parkway in southwest Shawnee, just before 8 a.m. on reports of a person injured after a fall. Before emergency crews could arrive, personnel at the facility reported that the injured man had stopped breathing. Security and other FedEx personnel conducted CPR until Shawnee firefighters arrived.

Captain Jodi Andrews of the Shawnee Police Department says, "upon arrival, officers found a male subject lying on the pavement."

Huston was resuscitated at the scene and said to be in critical condition with a head injury. Johnson County Med-Act, with the assistance of Shawnee Fire, rushed the Huston to an area trauma center where he later passed away as a result of his injuries.

Witnesses told police that the Huston had fallen out of a golf cart.

Major Bill Hisle says there were four men riding in a golf cart, when one fell out for some reason. Officers are still investigating exactly what happened.

Tuesday's accident is the third fatal incident at this same FedEx Ground sorting facility since March 2013. Links to previous Operation 100 News reports can be found below.

Related reports:

March 23, 2013 - Tractor trailer kills FedEx security guard in Shawnee

Nov. 20, 2013 - FedEx employee killed after being pinned between loading dock and trailer

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FedEx employee killed after being pinned between loading dock and tractor trailer has been identified

Posted: November 20, 2013 - 7:28am
Updated: November 20, 2013 - 12:15am

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Shawnee Police are investigating after a FedEx employee was pinned between the back of a tractor trailer and the loading dock this morning.

The incident was reported just before 7 a.m. at the FedEx sorting facility located at 8000 Cole Parkway in western Shawnee. The facility is just west of Kansas Highway 7.

Firefighters arrived to find the worker still pinned between the trailer and the loading dock.

The worker was reportedly pinned for approximately 7-10 minutes between the time of the accident and the time firefighters were able to free him.

Johnson County Med-Act, along with firefighters from Shawnee and Lenexa, found the man to be in cardiac arrest and performed life saving measures (CPR & defibrillation) several times, during emergency transport to an area trauma center.

Shawnee Police Department Major Bill Hisle has identified the victim as Dwight L. Spencer, 62, of Gardner, Kansas.

The Shawnee Police Department's Traffic Safety unit continues to investigate the accident.

A Security Guard at this same facility was killed in March of 2013 when he was run over by a tractor trailer near the front gate. Operation 100 News' previous report.

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Tractor trailer kills FedEx security guard in Shawnee

Posted: March 23, 2013 - 4:14am
Updated: March 25, 2013 - 4:31pm

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Shawnee Police have identified the victim as, 31-year-old, Adam A. Hughes of Kansas City, Missouri.

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Shawnee Police are investigating after semi-trailer killed a security guard at the FedEx facility located at 8000 Cole Parkway this morning.

Emergency crews were called to the address at 3:45 a.m.. Witnesses told police that the man fell in front of the wheels of one of the tandem trailers. The man was not hit by the truck, according to police.

Shawnee firefighters and Johnson County Med-Act paramedics pronounced the man dead at the scene.

Police have not released any information regarding the victim's name or age, pending the notification of next of kin.

The facility is located near 83rd Street and Kansas Highway 7 in southwest Shawnee.

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The Shawnee Police Department's traffic safety unit continues to investigate.

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You saw this story first from Operation 100 News on Twitter (tweet below) with photos from the scene (provided by a loyal follower), 10 hours before any mention from any other area media and none of them had images from the accident scene.

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