Police identify accident victim

SANDPOINT — The victim in Tuesday's deadly industrial accident at The Seasons resort development has been identified as Washington state resident Ezra D. Gordon.

Sandpoint Police released the man's identity on Wednesday and a federal labor safety inspector investigated accident site. Authorities on Tuesday listed Gordon's age as 24, but he was actually 25.

Police Chief Mark Lockwood said Gordon lived in the Spokane area and was working for Crux Subsurface, a Spokane Valley firm which specializes in geotechnical drilling services. Crux was doing work for developers of the waterfront condominium and marina project, but Lockwood had no further details on the nature of Crux's work at the site.

Gordon was part of a three-man crew using a track-mounted drilling machine when his clothes became entangled in the drill.

"His clothes got caught in the apparatus and it pulled him in," Lockwood said.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Health & Safety Administration is investigating the industrial accident, the city's first in 14 years.