A construction worker died Aug. 24 after falling at a jobsite in Palo Alto, Calif. State officials are investigating the death of the man, who was an employee of specialty contractor F.D. Thomas Inc.
Palo Alto police say they received a report that the worker, later identified as 43-year-old Christopher Paul Smith of Antioch, had fallen down a shaft inside a building on University Avenue during overnight construction work. California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) officials say the man fell from a scaffold.