FORT BRAGG, N.C. – The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has launched an investigation into the death of a contractor killed during a live fire drill at Fort Bragg, officials said Wednesday.
The contractor died at Womack Army Medical Center Tuesday from a gunshot wound.
A second range control contractor with Tennessee-based Echota Technologies Corp. was shot and wounded and was flown to UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill. He has been released from the hospital, the company said Wednesday.
The company did not release the contractors’ names.
A soldier who is a student at the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School also was wounded.