The job does come with an inherently grave danger.
Four workers at a Queens cemetery today plunged into a deep, freshly dug grave, leaving one of them injured.
The hurt man, Raimundo Rodriguez, 49, had been working in a crew of four at the Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery in Middle Village when the freak accident occurred around 12:50 p.m., workers said.
Rodriguez plunged 6 feet down into the open grave, smashing his leg on the hard casket below. The three other workers then landed on top of him.
“He was cleaning the grave site and wound up in the hole, and we are still trying to figure out how,” said Drew Nelson, a spokesman for the cemetery.
Rodriguez was treated at Elmhurst Hospital for a broken ankle. The others weren’t injured.