Heartbreaking final call from man to his wife as he died after being crushed by burial vault at work
A man who was crushed to death at work made a heartbreaking final call to his wife.
24-year-old Angel Rojas died last week (20 October) after a concrete vault at a funeral home in Dallas, Texas, fell on him and pinned him to the ground.
The man used his phone to call for help, CBS reports, and then made a second and final call to his wife, Nataly Galaviz, where he left her a voicemail saying he loved her.
"My husband was pinned under a vault pleading for help and pleading for air, "Nataly said as she described her husband's final words to her before he died.
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"He just wanted to be held and was scared. He told me he wanted to go home."
The couple had a three-year-old son together.
Firefighters who arrived on the scene used an inflatable device to lift the concrete vault off the man and he was taken to hospital, but sadly, he died later that day.
His widow said: "He was proud of what he was doing for families, helping families and being there during their grief."
She mentioned that just before he died, they'd been discussing finding somewhere permanent for their family to live and that Angel had been 'talking about a home a week before he passed'.
The family is considering launching a lawsuit against the funeral home, with their attorney Matthew Graham claiming that Rojas had been working by himself on a job that should have been done by at least two people.
He said: "If there's one thing we can do for his memory and for this family, it's to try to keep this from happening to anybody else, to try to bring some attention to this, and shed some light on what's going on over there."
The lawyer said he believed it was 'grossly negligent' of the funeral home 'to have put him in that position and for them to have caused his death'.
"What we know about this situation is that there is no way on earth this man should have been operating that machinery alone," Graham said.
"He shouldn't have been working alone. He shouldn't have been moving things of that weight alone."
The funeral home said in a statement: "We are saddened by the loss of our long standing valued employee. We are cooperating with the authorities to determine the cause
"His family and his fellow Restland employees need our support and we ask that we all give them space and time to grieve."
A GoFundMe for the family has been set up and can be donated to here.
Joe Harker