A construction worker for the Bomasso Engineering Co. slipped and fell from a beam this morning at a construction site a mile north of town, a week after the company was cited for safety violations.
51 year old Murphy Tease was driven to St. Luke’s Hospital from the construction site at Stairwell Road at around 11 a.m. this morning, and treated for a concussion, broken right arm, three broken ribs, and a fractured leg, after losing balance and falling 40 feet onto concrete. Tease fell while helping to install the steel post-and-beam framing for a furniture warehouse that is currently being built.
Although the the Bomasso Engineering Co. was ordered by the city’s department of buildings to put up safety lines last week, no such lines were yet in place at the time of Tease’s fall.
High winds and slippery beams from last night’s rainstorm made conditions even more dangerous for workers. Who had nothing to hold onto if they lost their balance.
Although Tease was unconscious at the time he was taken to St. Luke’s, and emergency room nurse said that he was currently in satisfactory condition.
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