On a cold, rainy payday in December 2019, Willy Cicchese—a labor foreperson for Dimeo Construction Co.—realized nobody had seen one of his workers for an hour and a half on a jobsite in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.
When the worker’s cell phone went unanswered, Cicchese bolted off the more than 250,000-sq-ft residential building project and found the worker a few blocks away sitting in his running car with the windows fogged. Cicchese pounded on the window to no avail, opened the door, grabbed the worker’s shoulder and screamed his name, only to notice the worker gagging, his eyes pinned at 12 o’clock. Cicchese called 911.