Work has stopped on part of a $300-million powerplant project near Pittsburgh after a second worker in less than a year died after falling into a 400-ft-tall exhaust stack that was being built.
Ronald Bush, 46, was helping to install a deck on a 400-foot-high landing near the top of the concrete stack when he fell to a second landing 100 feet below. It isn't clear yet whether Bush was wearing a harness or tied off when the accident occurred on Aug. 27, says Frank Librich, assistant area director for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.