Crime & Safety

Semi-Truck Driver Killed When Bed Extension Hits Power Line In Audubon

Becker County Sheriff's Office says Joseph Marlyn Boyle, 43, was found dead just after 2 p.m. next to an EMR Northern Metal Recycling Plant.

June 3, 2021

A Foley man was killed Wednesday in an accident involving a semi-truck and power lines in northwestern Minnesota.

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The Becker County Sheriff’s Office says Joseph Marlyn Boyle, 43, was found dead just after 2 p.m. next to an EMR Northern Metal Recycling-branded semi in the parking lot of TEAM Industries in Audubon. Deputies observed that the truck’s hydraulic bed extension was touching a power line.

The sheriff’s office is investigating.

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