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A 17-year-old female laborer died after falling 26 feet from a residential roof onto a stone patio. The victim was working as part of a construction crew replacing the roof, unloading bales of roofing shingles from a construction box that was raised and attached to a forklift.
Two guardrail installers were killed after being struck by a heavy-duty guardrail that was suspended from a chain attached to the post-pulling jack of a truck-mounted post driver.
An adult male sustained fatal injuries when the crane boom he was disassembling buckled and crushed him. The victim was not an employee of the construction company that owned and operated the crane – he was a friend of the owner.
A 48-year-old laborer was killed after he fell 8.5 feet from the top of a pile of construction debris on a trash truck bed to the pavement below. The debris hauling company employing the victim had been in operation only five months at the time of the incident.
A window washer was killed after falling 53 feet off the roof of a four-story office building. The victim had been working for a facilities service company for about four months prior to his death.