A 27 -year -old construction worker has died and another in the mid -1930’s was seriously injured after steel fastings fell into a gym construction project in a Potterville high school, Mich.
The two men worked for a subcontractor, Eagle Enterprises in Eagle, Mich.
“They were putting in a steel building in a building of ashes blocks. Two deposits had dropped, so they went to an aerial elevator to secure the faults and it was when four or five traps fell to the elevator,” said Benton Township’s captain Fire, Captain Rick Sullivan, who responded to the incident.
One of the workers, Dylan Kemp, died the next day. Sullivan said that the other worker, whose name has not been released, is still in critical condition.
The Michigan (Miosha) Occupational Health Administration, which investigates the incident, says in his first findings that other steel deposits had fallen to the ground just hours before the fatal incident.
The agency states that “as the two employees were in an aerial elevator, he rose to strengthen the transits in a second attempt, several ungrateful steel trunks fell … [and struck the workers]catching them in the aerial elevator, giving rise to both hospitalized. ”
Robert Lalonde, President of Clark Construction, said that the company is saddened by the incident and collaborates with Miosha in the research.
“We are bewildered to confirm that one of the workers injured during an incident at the Potterville High School construction site has died,” said Lalonde. “Our thoughts are with his family, their loved ones and all those affected by this tragic loss. The second individual remains hospitalized and we are respecting the privacy of those involved.”
Mike Krafcik, a agency specialist, said that research can take several weeks a month to complete.
Of the fatalities of the workplace investigated by the state agency by 2025, eight have occurred in the construction industry, said Krafcik.
Eagle Enterprises did not immediately respond to a comment request.
