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Weightlifter, 22, Dies After 315-Pound Barbell Drops On His Neck

IANS, 29 Dec, 2016 10:11 PM
    Authorities say a 22-year-old man has died after a barbell slipped from his grasp and crushed his neck at a gym in central Iowa.
     
    The accident occurred Monday morning at Elite Edge Transformation Center in Ankeny, about 10 miles north of Des Moines. A spokesman for the center, Mark Yontz, said Thursday that Kyle Thomson was bench-pressing 315 pounds when the barbell slipped.
     
    Ankeny Fire Chief James Clack says the barbell fell on Thomson's neck. Clack says a fire ambulance took Thomson to a Des Moines hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
     
    Yontz says there were spotters watching Thomson on the bench.
     
    Iowa State University spokeswoman Annette Hacker says Thomson was a student there and lived in Pleasant Hill.

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