Highway Worker Dead After Falling On Ice
By: Stephen Crews
Updated: January 21, 2011
The Alabama Department of Transportation says a 56-year-old highway
worker who fell on the ice during a snowstorm died later at Huntsville
Hospital.
Officials say Charlie Huggins of Phil Campbell slipped on the ice and broke his neck on Jan. 10 while working on U.S. Highway 43.
Tony Harris, a spokesman for the transportation department, says Huggins was a senior highway maintenance technician who had been with the department for 22 years and was assigned to the Moulton division office.
Huggins' father-in-law, Ed Rogers, says Huggins died on Saturday. He says Huggins apparently got off a grader, stepped on a snowbank and slipped.
