OSHA Investigating Fatal Elevator Shaft Fall in Kansas City

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is investigating a July 18 incident in which a worker fell 14 floors down an elevator shaft to his death at a building undergoing an office-to-residential conversion in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, the Kansas City Star reports. A spokesman for a construction workers advocacy group said the man appeared to be an undocumented worker from Nicaragua working for a temp agency performing asbestos abatement at the property. The man’s employer notified OSHA of the fatality, which local police say appears to be accidental, within the required 8 h, and OSHA has six months to conduct its investigation. The property where the incident occurred is the former AT&T building being converted into a 265-unit apartment tower.