Employee killed at Pilgrim’s Pride Texas plant

Authorities have determined that the death of a 55-year-old man who was struck by a chunk of ice while working at a Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. chicken processing plant in Mount Pleasant, Texas, was an accident.

Pablo Lopez Romero was pronounced dead at the Titus Regional Medical Center about 1:10 p.m. Friday following the incident, said Sgt. Ray Barrett of the Mount Pleasant Police Department. Mount Pleasant is about a two-hour drive east of Dallas.

Romero was in a room used to make ice at the facility when ice cubes that had frozen together to form a large piece of ice fell on…