Demolition work had been charged to company with background in roofing.
Federal safety inspectors toured the old Smurfit-Stone Mill west of Missoula on Tuesday, as a worker injured there last week still fights for his life.
According to friends, long time Smurfit employee Doug Dove was doing demolition work for the mill’s new owners when he was crushed by a 350 pound piece of metal. Friends say responders don’t know how long he was pinned under the metal before they found him unresponsive and revived him with a defibrillator.
Green Investment Group recently purchased Smurfit Stone and contracted a company called Industrial Technologies Corporation (ITC) to do demolition work there.
NBC Montana dug deeper into ITC. Public records show it has been around for 15 years, and it specialized in roofing.
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