{"id":66411,"date":"2026-08-16T23:04:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/66411\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T23:04:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:04:55","slug":"man-21-dies-after-falling-into-mass-quarry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/66411\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 21, dies after falling into Mass. quarry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man, 21, dies after falling into Mass. quarry<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/9690e616-8118-408f-a379-f1e498d94dbc_1747867269.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Imani Clement\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcvb.com\/news-team\/1630300b-507e-4951-a410-c0414c094101\" aria-label=\"Peter Eliopoulos profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1630300b-507e-4951-a410-c0414c094101_1579056724.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Peter Eliopoulos\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>WESTFORD, Mass. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A 21-year-old man died early Saturday morning after falling into a quarry in Westford, Massachusetts, the town&#8217;s police department announced.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Westford police and fire responded to Merrill&#8217;s Quarry, just off Tyngsboro Road, after a caller reported seeing a man fall into the body of water.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The caller said they could no longer see the victim in the water.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Police later found the man face down in the water. He was taken to Lowell General Hospital where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Westford police say the victim died from injuries sustained in the fall and from being in the water for an extended period of time.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Mark and Kathy Bruno live near the quarry and said they have encountered countless young people coming to them for help with injuries from swimming in the quarry.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">&#8220;It is not a safe place, and we have been saying it for years and years and years,&#8221; said Kathy Bruno. &#8220;It would be great if the town of Westford finally acted and did something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">&#8220;If you can minimize the number of kids that go up there, you&#8217;re going to minimize the number of people who get hurt and you&#8217;re going to minimize the death,&#8221; said Mark Bruno. &#8220;Young children have lost their lives because it doesn&#8217;t seem like anyone wants to take the next step to figure out how do we solve this problem, but I think it&#8217;s solvable.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">The victim&#8217;s identity has not been released.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"9\">The incident comes just weeks after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcvb.com\/article\/crews-search-milford-quarry-after-swimmer-reported-missing\/73263333\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a Boston teenager drowned<\/a> at a quarry in Milford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man, 21, dies after falling into Mass. quarry WESTFORD, Mass. \u2014 A 21-year-old man died early Saturday morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[10688,34676,2070,34678,34669,6369,8,11980,1142,34675,34670,1784,34677,34671,9,7931,34672,87,7,4796,34679,34673,5877,3070,34674],"class_list":["post-66411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-body","tag-caller","tag-death","tag-extended-period","tag-fatal-victim","tag-fire","tag-headlines","tag-male","tag-man","tag-mass-quarry","tag-massachsuetts","tag-massachusetts","tag-merrill","tag-merrills","tag-news","tag-police-department","tag-quarry","tag-time","tag-top-stories","tag-town","tag-tyngsboro-road","tag-tynsgboro","tag-victim","tag-water","tag-westford"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/117107695862015883","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}