Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Worker dies after falling into 12-foor excavation hole at Bellevue, WA construction site




Published September 1, 2015

By Jennifer Sullivan
Seattle Times staff reporter

A construction worker has died in Bellevue.

Bellevue police said they were called to a construction site at 116th Avenue Northeast and Northeast Fourth Street for a reported drowning.

When officers arrived shortly after 9:45 a.m. Tuesday they found a man face down in a puddle at the bottom of a 12-foot hole. Other construction workers were performing CPR on the unconscious man, said police spokesman Seth Tyler.

The 51-year-old man was taken to Overlake Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.


“What probably happened was a medical event, a heart attack or something.” Tyler said. “He’d been there up to 10 minutes when he was found.”