Army Corps of Engineers employee killed in workplace accident

FULTON, Miss. (WCBI) – A Fulton man has died after a workplace accident along the Tenn-Tom Waterway.

Itawamba County Coroner Shelia Summerford tells WCBI that Robert Scott Pannell of Fulton died after a tree fell on him.

The accident happened Wednesday afternoon.

Pannell, an Army Corps of Engineers employee, was supervising a clean-up project along the Waterway.

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