WEST CHESTER TWP. —
UPDATE @ 1:04 p.m. Aug. 1
The Butler County Coroner’s Office has identified the man who fell from a tower Tuesday morning and died as Terry L. Wogenstahl.
The 64-year-old Hamilton man was working on an East Crescentville Road building that was being demolished.
UPDATE @ 2:35 p.m. July 31
There are still scant details in the OSHA investigation into the death of a worker who fell from a tower this morning.
Ken Montgomery, area director for OSHA, said his office has a compliance officer on site to interview officials there. He said he has not yet been briefed on those interviews and did not have any information to release other than a fatality occurred to an employee of a private company.
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Federal safety officials continues to investigate the death of a worker in the demolition of an industrial site Tuesday morning.
The incident occurred when a worker fell from a tower of a building that is being demolished at Hanson Pipe and Precast at 2930 East Crescentville Road, according to Barb Wilson, township spokeswoman.
Emergency units were dispatched to the site at around 9:45 a.m. A West Chester Fire Department ambulance was called to the scene but drove away. Instead the Butler County Coroner’s Office responded.
Other agencies responding to the scene were the West Chester Police Department and Butler County Sheriff’s Office.
Scant details into an investigation by the The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) were available Tuesday afternoon. Ken Montgomery, area director for OSHA, told this news outlet his office had sent a compliance officer to the site to interview officials.
Montgomery said he had not yet been briefed on those interviews and did not have any information to release other than a fatality occurred to an employee of a private company.
Initial reports indicated the worker fell 80 feet but Montgomery and OSHA officials could not confirm how far the person fell.
This is third work-related death this month in Butler County.
On July 12, 60-year-old Ramon P. Rangel-Luna, of Cincinnati, was working as a rigger for a roofing project in the 300 block of Gates Road in Reily Twp. when he was electrocuted.
Rangel-Luna, who was working for Cincinnati-based Avendano Carpentry, had both hands on the load line and was electrocuted when the load line from the crane came in contact with an overhead power line, according to OSHA, which opened an investigation into the fatality.
On July 14, 67-year-old David E. Robertson, of Hamilton, was doing chimney work on a house in the 2300 block of Pleasant Avenue when he made contact with a power line, according to Hamilton police.
Robertson was found unresponsive and could not be revived by the Hamilton Fire Department.
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OSHA investigating fatal fall from West Chester tower
Published: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 @ 10:18 AM
Updated: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 @ 2:35 PM
By: Lauren Pack, Nick Graham, Eric Schwartzberg - Staff Writer
Coroner on scene of industrial accident in West Chester
WEST CHESTER TWP., OHIO — UPDATE @ 2:35 p.m.
There are still scant details in the OSHA investigation into the death of a worker who fell from a tower this morning.
Ken Montgomery, area director for OSHA, said his office has a compliance officer on site to interview officials there. He said he has not yet been briefed on those interviews and did not have any information to release other than a fatality occurred to an employee of a private company.
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Initial reports indicated the worker fell 80 feet but Montgomery, nor OSHA officials, could not confirm how far the person fell.
UPDATE @10:30 a.m.
A person has been killed in a fall in from a tower of a building that is being demolished at Hanson Pipe and Precast at 2930 East Crescentville Road, according to Barb Wilson, township spokeswoman.
A man fell 80 feet from a tower Tuesday morning and died, according to West Chester Twp. police. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF(Staff Writer)
An ambulance was called to the scene but drove away. The Butler County Coroner’s Office is in route the scene.
Police and firefighters are also at the scene.
INITIAL REPORT
Emergency units are responding this morning to a report of person who reportedly fell at a site in West Chester Twp. that is being demolished.
Units were dispatched at about 9:45 a.m. to the 2900 block of East Crescentville Road. The person reportedly fell 80 feet.
We have a reporter heading to the scene.
A man fell 80 feet from a tower Tuesday morning and died, according to West Chester Twp. police. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF(Staff Writer)
A man fell 80 feet from a tower Tuesday morning and died, according to West Chester Twp. police. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF(Staff Writer)