A 66-year-old carpenter died after falling from the plank of an improvised scaffold. The victim had arrived that day from Costa Rica. He immediately went to the site where his son, the construction company owner, was renovating a home. The crew had demolished and rebuilt a section and were installing siding. They had built an improvised scaffold with discarded lumber. The son was away; his father went to work. The victim was standing on a narrow wood plank set more than 10 feet (three meters) above a concrete driveway. One end of the plank rested on a porch roof and the other […]
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