Central Penn baseball player Angel Mercado-Ocasio, 19, dies after makeshift dugout collapses on him
Central Penn College baseball player Angel Mercado-Ocasio, 19, dies after makeshift dugout collapses on him, resulting in brain injury
- He was helping to bring down a makeshift dugout when it collapsed on top of him
- Mercado-Ocasio was rushed to hospital and died of the injuries days later
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Angel Mercado-Ocasio, a 19-year-old college baseball player, has died in Pennsylvania after a makeshift dugout collapsed on top of him.
Mercado-Ocasio and his teammates from Central Penn College – near Harrisburg – had built a wooden dugout on a public field in Cumberland County.
But local authorities informed the team that they did not have a permit to build there and asked them to tear it down.
It was when they brought down the wooden dugout on Monday when it collapsed on top of Mercado-Ocasio, resulting in a traumatic head injury.
He remained hospitalized and died of his injuries the next day.
Angel Mercado-Ocasio has died after a makeshift dugout collapsed on top of him
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