According to a report from NBC Los Angeles, a worker in the Westlake district of the city fell 28 feet to his death Nov. 17. LA West Media identified the worker as Oswaldo Mineros Jr., reporting that the 20-year-old fell from scaffolding onto a concrete pile in a pit on the jobsite.
That same day, 56-year-old Eugeniusz Klecha was killed by a fall from a home under construction in Staten Island, New York. According to a report from SILive.com, Klecha was not wearing a safety harness and no supervisor was on the scene at the time of the accident.
On Nov. 25, 29-year-old Luis R. Estrada was killed in an 11-foot fall on a jobsite in Carthage, Missouri, according to the Joplin Globe. Estrada fell from a three-sided box sitting on the forks of a tractor. He was employed by Mundo Hernandez Construction of El Paso, Texas, the Globe reported. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration opened an investigation of the incident.
On Dec. 4, an unidentified worker was killed after falling from the rooftop of a former jail under renovation in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, according to the Hattiesburg American.
And this past weekend, 46-year-old Chris Wayne Hulsey died from injuries he sustained Dec. 10 in a 16-foot fall from storage tanks in Cleveland, Georgia, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
