Crushing fatality in Pickens County

Multiple agencies are investigating the crushing death in Pickens County of an Upstate man.  Chief Deputy Coroner Andrew Wilson of Pickens County reports the death of Greer resident Ronald Lewis McCarson Monday morning at the new Pickens County Landfill at Greenville Highway and Quarry Road, Liberty.  First responders received a call for a possible crushing, stating someone had been run over by machinery.  McCarson received treatment at the scene, then helicoptered to Prisma Greenville where he was pronounced dead.