LARKIN, Alfred J.

Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, Arizona March 11, 1965 CRUSHED TO DEATH ON ROAD PROJECT For the first time in more than 30 years, an accident on a highway construction project in the Wickenburg area has taken the life of a worker on the job. At 4 p.m. March 24 Alfred J. Larkin, age 48, of Phoenix, was instantly killed when crushed beneath a truck hauling ready mixed cement to the scene of the new overpass under construction just east of Morristown. Mr. Larkin had driven the load of cement from Arizona Sand & Rock in the valley and was backing the truck alongside an excavation when the bank gave in and the truck rolled over on top of the driver. Sheriff’s Sergeant Dave Carter said his investigation revealed that the man’s death was instantaneous. The overpass under construction is a part of the new highway being built by Wells Cargo Construction Co., from two miles west of Morristown to a point almost at the western city limits of Circle City. As far as can be determined, the previous fatality on a highway contract in this section was in 1934 when a worker from New Mexico, employed in the building of the Hassayampa River bridge was crushed by a pile driver. Ben Ortega was operating a jack hammer breaking up caleche, some 20 feet below the surface of the river bed preparatory to the driving of piles when that accident occurred.