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Baxter Cox was fatally injured aboard a vessel in Alaska on Sept. 3, after a pot shaker was lowered on his head, the Alaska Department of Public Safety said

Hana Stepetin, Cox’s girlfriend, said that she and her boyfriend were looking to marry and start a family

"He will be greatly missed," Cox's family said in a statement

An accident on a commercial fishing vessel in Alaska's Aleutian Islands killed a 27-year-old fisherman who was planning to marry his girlfriend.

The Alaska Department of Public Safety tells PEOPLE in a statement that the incident occurred on the ship around 9:45 p.m. local time on Sept. 3. Officials said that crew member Baxter Cox, 27, was injured after the ship’s "pot shaker was lowered on his head while he was attempting to untangle [a] rope attached

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