Worker killed in bulldozer accident

The Associated Press

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- A construction worker was killed when he became pinned between two bulldozers, police said.

Ronnie Paul Nowlin, 26, of Columbia, was clearing some land for Lonnie Trucking and Excavating on Tuesday when a Caterpillar bulldozer became stuck in the mud, police Capt. Mike Martin said. Another Caterpillar unit hitched a cable to the rear of the stuck machine in an effort to free the equipment.

Nowlin stepped between the two vehicles to make an adjustment, Martin said, just as the operator of the unstuck vehicle told him not to get between the machines. One of the vehicles rolled back against the other, pinning Nowlin.