Early Days of August Prove Fatal In Three Construction Mishaps
Over a five-day span this month that many Americans think of as a long weekend, seven construction workers were killed in three separate accidents across the U.S.
Three workers, employed by two different subcontractors, died Aug. 5 when a pre-cast concrete wall collapsed at a Home Depot being built in Greensboro, N.C. "It was right around lunch time and they were taking a break sitting outside the wall when it fell," says Leslie Lejeune, a Greensboro detective. She says the 35-ft-tallx20-ft-wide section, weighing about 80,000 lb, was not shored or connected to the roof. The workers were identified as Larry M. Thompson III, 22, and Juan Almaguer, 34, both of Winston-Salem, and Rickey C. Smutko II, 24, Germanton, N.C.