Police are investigating how a worker died at a construction site in Orange County Thursday afternoon.

The fatal accident happened at a popular strip mall on Route 300 in the Town of Newburgh around 3 p.m.

Police say a yellow boom crane being operated off a red truck somehow malfunctioned, and the worker became trapped.

Police say he was pronounced dead at the scene.

The part of the strip mall was once a Chinese buffet restaurant.

It is currently being converted into a Home Goods Store.