Saturday, February 28, 2015

A CONSTRUCTION WORKER IN MADISON, WISCONSIN, WAS KILLED AFTER A WALL COLLAPSED ON TOP OF HIM.




FEBRUARY 22, 2015

MADISON, WI
 
According to a report from the Wisconsin State Journal, 58-year-old John Stoll was working at a construction site for a new apartment building when a wall collapsed on top of him and trapped him.

Madison Fire Department officials told the paper Stoll was working near a stairwell at the rear of the building. His co-workers freed him before rescue workers arrived to the scene.

He was transported to University of Wisconsin Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration in investigating the DEADLY incident.

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UPDATE: WORKER IDENTIFIED IN FATAL WALL COLLAPSE AT CONSTRUCTION SITE

Update: The victim of the construction site accident has been identified as John P. Stoll, 58, of Fitchburg, the Dane County Medical Examiner's Office said Saturday.

A worker at a construction site off John Nolen Drive died Friday after a wall collapsed and trapped him, authorities said.

The collapse happened at the future site of the Watermark Lofts apartment building, 960 John Nolen Drive on Madison’s South Side, around 7:30 a.m. Friday.

The man was taken to UW Hospital, where he died, according to the Dane County Medical Examiner’s Office.

A representative from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration was at the site Friday morning, along with Madison police and fire units that left around 9 a.m.

Madison Fire Department spokeswoman Lori Wirth said the man had been working near a stairwell at the rear of the building.

“When firefighters and medics arrived, workers at the site had freed their co-worker,” Wirth said.

Workers at the site declined to talk about the incident.

The Watermark Lofts, on the John Nolen Drive service road near the Beltline and Turville Bay, is scheduled to open this summer with apartments and retail space. 

It is being built at the former site of the Causeway Centre apartment building, which was destroyed by a fire in April 2012.

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Damages to the Causeway Centre office building could total over $2 million, with the building suffering heavy damage from the Tuesday blaze that could be seen for miles.

As of Wednesday morning, exterior walls to the two-story office building at 900 John Nolen Drive were standing, but almost all of the interior structure had collapsed, Madison Fire Department spokeswoman Lori Wirth said to Madison.com.

"Firefighters maintained an overnight watch, putting out hot spots until about 4 a.m.," Wirth said. "Stuff was still falling inside the interior, so there could be more hot spots during the day on Wednesday."

No cause has been determined of the blaze that was first reported at 4 p.m. Tuesday, a fire that went to a second and then a third alarm, with a total of 82 personnel on scene, including firefighters from the town of Madison, Fitchburg, Monona and McFarland.

The Madison assessors office showed the 11 business condo units in the building had an assessed value of $1,935,000, not counting the business property of the individual unit owners.

No one was injured among the firefighting crews, and no injuries were reported to people who evacuated from the office building.