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Student dies in accident at Yale Rep

26-year-old Drama School student suffered ‘massive’ injuries to head while unloading show materials

Staff Reporter
Published Monday, November 26, 2007

A second-year graduate student at the Yale School of Drama was killed Nov. 18 in an accident at the Yale Repertory Theatre.

Pierre-Andre Salim DRA ’09, of Jakarta, Indonesia, was injured while unloading materials for an upcoming production from a truck outside the theater, University Spokesman Tom Conroy said. The accident occurred at 8:51 a.m., New Haven police said, and Salim was later pronounced dead at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

Salim, who was 26, was helping to remove several large sheets of particleboard from the back of a tractor-trailer truck when the truck’s load...

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