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Worker Dies In Accident At NC Zoo

88.5 WFDD - Public Radio For The Piedmont | By Paul Garber

Published July 18, 2019 at 1:40 PM EDT

A worker has died at the North Carolina Zoo, a spokeswoman for the zoo says.

The workplace accident occurred Thursday just after 8 am and was reported as a fall from a tree, a Randolph County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman said. Authorities have not yet identified the man.

“The entire Zoo community is saddened by this loss and our thoughts and sympathies are with the family of our team member,” spokeswoman Debbie Fuchs said in a release. “The Zoo is working closely with investigators to determine details of the incident, which was not related to any of the Zoo's animals.”

The accident occurred in the park's Africa section.

The Zoo closed three hours early as a result of the incident.

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Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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Worker Dies In Accident At NC Zoo

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