OSHA Investigating Fatal Elevator Shaft Fall in Kansas City

Image by Rich Sugg for The Kansas City Star

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.

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