Corrections Employee

Robert A. Hunt

Accident
End of Watch June 6, 1984
Age 35
Tour of Duty 9 yrs
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Gender Male

Incident

Officer Hunt was killed when an air compressor exploded. The officer and three inmates were working on an air conditioning unit when the compressor exploded. The officer was killed by flying shrapnel and the three inmates were injured. Officer Hunt served at the Wayne Unit.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife, son, daughter, mother, two brothers and two sisters.

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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Corrections Employee Hunt gave the Texas Department of Criminal Justice 9 years.
Thank you for your service to the Huntsville community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Corrections Employee Hunt.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Type Corrections
Location Huntsville, Walker County, TX
Platform Identity tdcjcidcorr.walker.tx.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch June 6, 1984
Tour of Duty 9 yrs
Age 35
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

The Sacrifice · Accident

Robert is one of 8,275 officers lost to accidents in the United States, 30% of the 27,551 remembered there.

33,917 officers are remembered on this memorial. Each number below is one of them.

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Time

In 1984, 82 officers in the United States were lost to accidents, the 23rd heaviest of 174 years on record. The heaviest was 1929, with 118.

Every year on record · United States
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Who

Robert was 35. Of the 7,718 lost to accidents in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 29 and 46; the middle age was 36. Robert had served 9 years; the middle length of service was 6 years.

Age at death
Where he stood among them
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When

June holds 7.9% of these deaths in the United States; August holds the most, 9.5%. Wednesdays: 14.5%.

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By day of the week
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How

Accident deaths account for 30% of all 27,551 deaths in the United States, the 2nd most common cause.

Every cause
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His people

Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions Division has at least 120 officers remembered here, Robert among them.

Across the years

Corrections Employee Robert A. Hunt

Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions Division · End of Watch June 6, 1984

Where the Name Is Cut

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial · Panel 35-W

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