father of four crushed by 1,400-pound pizza oven

[Herbert Anchovy]

Richard Hall, 33, was one of three workers unloading the ovens from a truck for the Papa John's Pizza restaurant just before 1 a.m, according to a report from the Woodstock Police Department. The restaurant is on Trickum Road just off Ga. 92 in Woodstock.

"They had one of the ovens on the lift and were lowering it down when the back half of the lift broke," said Woodstock Police Sgt. Dan King.

"The box it came in — it was in a big crate — came down. And it came down on top of the worker," King said.

Hall was taken to North Fulton Regional Hospital in Roswell, where he was pronounced dead. Hall was married with four children, police said.

At the Hall home in Flowery Branch, Hall's father, Richard Hall Sr., said he was "still numb," after receiving the news and driving up from Florida.

His son's worked was never considered dangerous, he said.

"He goes off to work, a little restaurant repair job, and he's killed," Hall said. "How can that be? It shouldn't have happened."

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[leo1]

sad story. but...and not to sound callous, this is just a freak thing. same as getting killed by a drunk driver or blindsided at an intersection by a sober driver or any old accident that doesn't involve weather. i don't know if the freak-ness of it makes it any tougher or easier to take because thankfully i have no experience with this type of thing.