New York City restaurant worker is CRUSHED to death by malfunctioning dumbwaiter freight elevator

New York City restaurant worker is CRUSHED to death by malfunctioning dumbwaiter freight elevator in eatery’s basement

  • Granville Wiltshire, 67, of Queens, New York, was pronounced dead early Monday morning outside The Door restaurant where he worked
  • Witnesses said a dumbwaiter freight elevator, which is used to carry item between floors, fell on Wiltshire and pinned him to a wall around 6.30am
  • His body has been taken to the local coroner’s office for an autopsy to determine his exact cause of death 

Granville Wiltshire, 67, of Queens, New York, was pronounced dead at the scene outside The Door restaurant some time after 6.30am Monday

A New York City restaurant worker was killed on the job Monday morning when his employer’s dumbwaiter freight elevator crushed him.

Granville Wiltshire, 67, of Queens, New York, was pronounced dead at the scene outside The Door restaurant some time after 6.30am Monday.

A pedestrian looking through the restaurant’s cellar doors on the sidewalk saw Wiltshire’s body pinned to a wall in the basement before notifying the restaurant’s staff, according to the New York Daily News.

Someone called 911 and emergency responders freed Wiltshire’s body after arriving, but they were unable to save the man’s life.

Wiltshire, a Jamaican immigrant and a married father-of-two, usually works as a cleaner at the popular Caribbean restaurant and he was alone in the basement when the accident occurred, employees told the Daily News.

 

A pedestrian looking through The Door restaurant's cellar doors (circled) on the sidewalk saw Wiltshire's body pinned to a wall in the basement by a malfunctioning dumbwaiter freight elevator

A pedestrian looking through The Door restaurant’s cellar doors (circled) on the sidewalk saw Wiltshire’s body pinned to a wall in the basement by a malfunctioning dumbwaiter freight elevator

Staffers from the New York medical examiner's office loaded Wiltshire's body in a truck Monday morning

Staffers from the New York medical examiner’s office loaded Wiltshire’s body in a truck Monday morning

Police officers stand in front of The Door restaurant's open cellar doors where a dumbwaiter freight elevator crushed a restaurant employee

Police officers stand in front of The Door restaurant’s open cellar doors where a dumbwaiter freight elevator crushed a restaurant employee

His grieving family wept Monday as they struggled to piece together what happened while sharing fond memories of the beloved patriarch.

‘Daddy, why?’ Wiltshire’s tearful daughter, Simone Wiltshire, told the Daily News. 

‘My daddy was always reliable, I could call him to do anything, anything. He never failed. He never say no to me and my brother,’ she said.

QNS reports Granville Wiltshire’s body was taken to the coroner’s office to for an autopsy to determine his precise cause of death.

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