Worker shocked falls off roof (a construction worker involved in building the new city barn escaped major injury when he was shocked and fell nearly 20 feet from the building's roof - he and others were pulling a long piece of steel to the roof when it came in contact with a secondary power line - he was conscious of the wires, but the steel dipped into the line - it shocked him and he just back flipped off the roof)įirefighter in hospital after falling from truck (a firefighter, 33, remains in serious condition in hospital after tumbling out of a fire truck en route to a fire - he was injured after hitting the pavement when a door opened while the truck turned - she suffered head injuries -she was not wearing a helmet, which fire officials say is standard procedure while riding in the truck) Worker plunges 40 feet (a worker was rushed to hospital with head injuries after falling 40ft from scaffolding - the 26-year old man fractured an arm, his ankle, and suffered head injuries in the fall at around 10am - it is unclear how the accident happened, but an investigation is already under way with the Health and Safety Executive)įATAL FALL Verrazano Bridge Worker Dies in Fall (a construction worker, 48, died after falling about 15 stories from the bridge, after an 8,500-pound concrete barrier tipped over and knocked him off a wooden platform - he had been on the platform, on the bridge’s lower level helping align the barriers - at 1:15 p.m., one of the barriers tipped and fell onto the platform causing him to fall to the ground below - workers at the site said a backhoe that was being used to align the barriers might have struck one, causing his fall)įATAL FALL Construction worker dies after fall (authorities are investigating the death of a worker, 51, who fell about 50 feet during construction of a state highway bridge - he was installing iron plates intended to hold concrete when he fell) inside one of two rooms being built at the site - authorities do not suspect foul play but have not determined a cause of death - two co-workers found him lying on his back near some scaffolding, which was about 25 feet high, but police do not know if he’d fallen)įATAL FALL Worker Killed In Construction Accident (a man, 37, and another employee were working on a construction project at a plant chimney, located between the power plant's two smokestacks when he fell more than two hundred feet - he suffered serious head injuries, and was pronounced dead at the scene - accident happened shortly before seven o-clock this morning - he was working on the construction of the chimney for an environmental emissions control project) Worker’s body found at LJ pump station (there are no signs of foul play in the possible industrial death of a man, 23, working on a pump station construction site - he was found dead at about 3:40 p.m. Worker injured in 100-foot fall (a contractor, 56, was working adjacent to a conveyor belt - he had a harness on - he was working up high - somehow, the harness got caught in a conveyor belt and it flung him more than 100 feet to the ground - when he landed on the ground, his head landed on a board with nails sticking out of it - he remained in critical condition at a Hospital's neurological intensive care unit) 12)Ĭonstruction worker stable after three-story fall (a construction worker fell from a third-floor scaffolding but landed in sand and was airlifted in stable condition - rescuers thought the man had a fractured pelvis after the 25- to 30-foot fall) Second worker injured at old Blockbuster site (a construction worker, 30, fell through the roof of a former video store about 8:30 a.m., the second accident this month at the site - another worker fell into a vat of hot roofing tar on the same rooftop on Aug.
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