A routine workday turned into an unimaginable tragedy for a young Dallas family, leaving a wife without a husband and a little boy without a father. Angel Rojas, a 24-year-old employee at Restland Funeral Home, was killed in a horrific industrial accident when a concrete burial vault weighing nearly 2,500 pounds fell and pinned him beneath its crushing weight. The incident has sparked a gross negligence lawsuit and a federal investigation, highlighting the human cost of workplace safety failures.
In his final, desperate moments, Angel managed to use his phone to call his wife, Nataly Galaviz. Trapped and struggling for air, he left a haunting voicemail that would become his last message to his family. Through tears at a press conference, Nataly shared the content of that call, revealing a husband who was scared, pleading for help, and expressing his simple, profound wish to just go home. He told her he loved her, words that now serve as a painful final comfort.
First responders rushed to the scene, but the rescue operation was complex and time-consuming. Firefighters worked for over 45 minutes with specialized hydraulic equipment to lift the massive concrete structure and free Angel. Despite their efforts and his swift transport to a hospital, his injuries were too severe. He was pronounced dead shortly after arrival, a devastating outcome for the rescue crews and his waiting family.
Angel’s family and their legal representatives are now raising serious questions about the circumstances that led to the tragedy. They state that Angel was working alone at the time of the accident, a situation they believe should never have occurred when handling machinery and loads of such immense weight. The family’s attorney has stated that no single person should ever have been tasked with such a dangerous operation without direct support or supervision.
Angel Rojas leaves behind his wife, Nataly, and their young son, Angel Noel, who will celebrate his fourth birthday next month without his father. Just a week before the accident, the couple had been dreaming and planning for their future, discussing their hopes of buying a house with land. Now, instead of building that future, his family is left with memories and the echo of a final voicemail, a heartbreaking reminder of a life cut short in a preventable workplace accident.
