The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified a man who police say was killed after a jet engine fell on him at Port San Antonio.

David Monroe, 72, died from blunt force injuries, the medical examiner’s office said Saturday. His death was ruled an accident.

San Antonio police and firefighters responded around 4 p.m. Friday to the 3300 block of General Hundell Drive on the Southwest Side, at the back of the Boeing Center at Tech Port.

Monroe was transporting a jet engine with a coworker in the loading dock of the venue, a police sergeant at the scene told KSAT.

Monroe went to reach for something when the dolly carrying the jet engine began to roll, police said. The engine hit him, causing both to fall off the four-foot-tall dock.

The engine fell on top of Monroe, and he was

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