Construction Worker Dies after Six-Story Fall from Manhattan Church

According to officials, a construction worker died this morning after falling six stories while installing a safety net under the roof of an Upper West Side church.

The police have not released the identity of the 33-year-old laborer, who landed inside the Church of St. Paul the Apostle on W. 60th Street, just off Columbus Circle, at around 9:30 a.m, the New York Daily News reports.

The NYPD, the City Buildings Department, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are currently investigating the incident.

The victim, along with an assistant, was working on a sub-ceiling and installing the safety net, the News explains.

Police said the victim “may have lost his footing on a ladder when both he and his 23-year-old partner received electric shocks.”

While drilling the ceiling, they might have struck a live wire, the police said.

“It’s such an old church,” said Mary Clair Sullivan, who lives around the corner from the church and has been a parishioner for 18 years. “They’ve been working on it for about two years now—on the outside and the roof. I can’t say enough about the church. It’s such a tragedy.”

Source: AllMediaNY