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Worker run over, killed by heavy equipment
A curbing machine hits him while he works in Wesley Chapel's Country Walk development.
By Times Staff Writer
Published December 28, 2005
WESLEY CHAPEL - A construction worker was run over and killed by a curb-making machine Tuesday morning in Wesley Chapel's Country Walk neighborhood.
Tommy Lee Coomer, 19, of 5224 Salem St. in Carrollwood was pronounced dead at East Pasco Medical Center in Zephyrhills shortly after 8 a.m.
Coomer worked for Ripa & Associates, the Tampa contractor developing Country Walk, a community of about 800 homes southwest of State Road 54 and Meadow Pointe Boulevard.
A co-worker accidentally ran him over with the curbing machine, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said. Such equipment inches along roads, molding wet concrete into curbs and gutters. Ripa officials could not be reached for comment.
At Coomer's yellow and green mobile home in Carrollwood on Tuesday, his mother was too distraught to speak. A man calling himself Coomer's "best friend" said the 19-year-old's final words were how much he loved his friends and family.
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