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Angel Mercado-Ocasio, a 19-year-old baseball player for Central Penn College, died after a makeshift dugout collapsed on him during a recreation league game in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The dugout was being taken down on the order of city officials, who had told the team that they needed a permit to construct anything on city property. The incident happened as players were "fooling around" taking down the dugout.
Angel Mercado-Ocasio, a 19-year-old baseball player at Central Penn College, died after a makeshift dugout collapsed on him while he was helping to take it down. The dugout was deemed illegal by the city and was built by a local youth baseball team. Mercado-Ocasio suffered a traumatic head injury and died in the hospital the next day. Friends and coaches remembered him as a lighthearted kid and mourned his loss. The local youth baseball coach who built the dugout blames himself for the incident. No legal action has been taken against the city or the coach and players.
A 19-year-old baseball player, Angel Mercado-Ocasio, died after a dugout he was helping to disassemble collapsed on him at a community baseball program in Harrisburg. The dugouts were built without the city's permission. Gerardo Diaz, known as "Coach Cuba," has taken responsibility for the incident. Mercado-Ocasio was a student at Central Penn College and a promising young athlete. The community is mourning his loss.