Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Christopher Stuck, 56 of South Windsor, Connecticut Died In Construction Collapse Inside Cambridge, Mass. Parking Garage




March 05, 2021

The Associated Press

The construction worker who died when a concrete stairwell collapsed at a city-owned parking garage in Cambridge, Massachusetts, this week has been identified by authorities as a Connecticut man.

Christopher Stuck, 56 of South Windsor, Connecticut, was apparently removing the metal railings on a stairway located on the fourth floor of the building during a restoration project on Tuesday morning when it collapsed, according to a statement Thursday from the office of Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan.

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Stuck fell and was pinned by the fallen stairway on the second floor, the statement said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Autopsy results are pending.

Another worker, a 41-year-old man, sustained critical injuries and remains hospitalized.

The accident is under investigation by state authorities as well as the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, but foul play is not suspected, authorities said.

The accident occurred a week after two construction workers were killed in downtown Boston when they were struck by a truck during sewer work.

 

 

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One construction worker was killed and a second was critically injured in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Wednesday morning when a section of the concrete stairwell in a city-owned parking garage collapsed, authorities said.

“At least a ton” of steel and concrete fell during the collapse of the second-story stairwell, which was undergoing repairs, acting Fire Chief Gerard Mahoney said during a news conference.

No names were released but the man who died at the scene was 56, while a 41-year-old man was taken to the hospital with critical injuries, according to a statement from the Middlesex district attorney. Mahoney described it as a chest injury.

No one else was in the stairwell at the time, but the garage has remained open during the work.

The fire department reported that it responded to the scene at about 8:30 a.m. for a “structure building collapse.”

Both men were employed by a subcontractor.

State and local authorities as well as the federal Occupational and Safety Health Administration are investigating.

The accident occurred a week after two construction workers were killed in downtown Boston when they were struck by a truck during sewer work.