A Vanceboro man was killed in an industrial accident in Chocowinity on Friday.

According to Lt. Wesley Waters, spokesman for the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office, at 1:20 p.m. Friday, the sheriff’s office receive the report of an accident, in which a man had been pinned by a fallen container at OBI Shearsteel, a scrap metal processing facility on Frederick Road in Chocowinity, Waters said. Both Chocowinity Volunteer Fire Department and Chocowinity EMS responded to the call, Waters said in a press release.

Though life-saving measures were taken by responders, David Allen Partee, age 55, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Waters said that no foul play was suspected, but the sheriff’s office is conducting an ongoing investigation with assistance from the North Carolina Department of Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

“It’s an unfortunate incident,” Waters said.

No one else was injured in the accident.

According to 2013 data on the OSHA website, 4,585 U.S. workers were killed on the job — on average, 88 per week or more than 12 deaths every day. One in five of those deaths involved people who worked in construction. Most worker deaths were attributed to falls (36.5 percent), being struck by an object (10.1 percent), electrocutions (8.6 percent) or being caught in or between objects (2.5 percent), as was the case in Chocowinity.