Worker at Wolfspeed in Durham dies a week after workplace injuries

Monday, July 24, 2023
DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- A worker who was injured last week at the Wolfspeed facility in Durham has died from their injuries, ABC11 learned Monday.

The person's name has not been released.
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The North Carolina Department of Labor said that person was at the site as a contracted worker with Southern Industrial Constructors Inc.

The Department of Labor has opened an inspection into that company.

It's Southern Industrial's second employee to die this year.
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It's also the second workplace death in less than a year at Wolfspeed's Silicon Drive location.

Wolfspeed was fined for that incident back in April.
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