A Hermanville man died Thursday following a work-related accident at the Old Carlisle Bridge in Claiborne County, Deputy Coroner Sharon Thompson Harvey said.

Mark Greer Myers, who was 50, was using a cutting torch to help dismantle the bridge when a section broke loose and hit him at about 11:20 a.m., Harvey said Saturday.

He was taken to Patients’ Choice Medical Center in Port Gibson where he was pronounced dead at 12:45 p.m., Harvey said.

An autopsy was ordered from the Mississippi state crime lab, but results had not yet been received, she said.

The Old Carlisle Bridge, a truss span across Bayou Pierre near Mississippi 18, had been abandoned since 1983 when a new bridge was built.

Claiborne County Sheriff Frank Davis said the old bridge had recently been sold and it was being dismantled.

“He was cutting on it with a cutting torch when a beam kicked back and hit him in the chest and he fell,” Davis said.

Harvey said being hit with the section of bridge, not the fall, caused the fatal injury.

Myers was an industrial mechanic employed by Armstrong World Industries, but was working independently with several other men on the bridge, Harvey said. Two other men were injured, she said, but no details were available.

A call to a co-worker and friend who was at the scene of the accident was not returned.

Myers, who was a member of Hermanville Baptist Church, leaves his wife, Angela, two sons and other relatives.