Snowplower Dies on Stony Brook Southampton Campus

A man plowing snow at Stony Brook Southampton died Tuesday morning when he suffered a medical emergency during the storm. 

University police and Southampton Town police responded to a report of an unresponsive man in a running vehicle, behind the Montauk building, at about 6:45 a.m., Town Police Sgt. John Boden said. The man was employed by a vendor that the university contracted to perform snow removal operations on campus, according to Lauren M. Sheprow, a media relations officer with the university.

University police officers performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation while awaiting the arrival of medical personnel, Ms. Sheprow said. Southampton Volunteer Ambulance transported the man to Southampton Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

"The University was very saddened to learn that the contracted employee was unable to be revived at the hospital," Ms. Sheprow said by email Tuesday evening. The man's name was not released. 

No criminality is suspected, though police are investigating his exact cause of death.