News Briefs From Across The State
By Monica Land
Victim found days after dad’s body discovered
The body found Friday in the Mississippi Sound is that of a kayaker who had been missing for 10 days.
Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove says an autopsy Saturday confirmed the body as that of 23-year-old Nick Rainer, who went missing Feb. 27 while kayaking with his father.
The state Marine Patrol found the body more than four miles south of Biloxi. The body had been spotted by a charter boat fisherman.
The younger Rainer and his father, Ken Rainer, were last seen near Biloxi Bay’s mouth, but a shrimper later found two empty kayaks. The father’s body was found Feb. 28 near Davis Bayou.
Hargrove says family members helped identify the body through tattoos and birth marks.
Hargrove says Rainer died as a result of drowning.
Children hurt after running into truck
Two children were injured when they apparently tried to run across Mississippi Highway 2 near Kossuth and ran into the side of a truck.
The Mississippi Highway Patrol tells The Daily Corinthian the unidentified youngsters were treated for minor injuries after the incident on March 6.
Authorities said the two were trying to cross the highway about 3:15 p.m. and ran into a Chevrolet Silverado driven by a Corinth woman.
Investigators said the children apparently didn’t see the vehicle. The driver of the truck was not injured.
The Highway Patrol continues to investigate.
Ala. man dies in motorcycle accident
Authorities say an Alabama man has been killed in a weekend motorcycle accident.
Lowndes County Coroner Greg Merchant tells WCBI-TV in Columbus that the body of 43-year-old Danny Larry Rea Jr. of Ethelsville,
Ala., was found Saturday near the top of a ravine just off a county road.
Merchant says Rea was pronounced dead at the scene.
He says it appeared Rea ran off the road and suffered head trauma.
The accident is under investigation.
Miss. company cited by OSHA after worker death
Southern Hens Inc. has been cited by the government for 43 safety and health violations following the death of a worker in 2012.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration says in a news release that it has proposed penalties of $160,000. The poultry company has 15 days to appeal.
OSHA says it initiated an inspection Sept. 9, 2012, after a worker slipped and fell into an unguarded screw conveyor while cleaning the conveyor at the company’s Moselle facility in Jones County.
OSHA says the violations included failing to provide personal protective equipment for employees, to identify mechanical hazards in the offal pits before employees entering, to provide training for employees entering offal pits and to develop energy control procedures for augers, chillers, scalders, cookers and dumpers.
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