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CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY FATALITY
Seattle-area worker, 26, dies in construction accident
October 15, 2008 -- A 26-year-old construction worker from Seabeck, Wash., was stuck by the boom of an excavator and accidentally buried Friday while working at a Seattle construction site. The fatality is one of a thousand in the construction industry this year.
He was pronounced dead at 7:46 p.m. Friday, according to the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office.
The man was standing on sloping ground at about 2:30 p.m. when an excavator holding the tank began to tip, officials said. The excavator operator yelled for him to get out of the way, but the front of the machine pushed him to the ground as dirt fell over him.
The excavator operator used a second machine to help dig him out, officials said. When emergency crews arrived, they were able to extract him from beneath the machine, but he had stopped breathing and was in cardiac arrest.
Fatality rate high in U.S. construction industry
Though U.S. construction industry fatalities declined in 2007 to 1,178 (from 1,239 in 2006), the industry experiences more fatalities than any other in the private sector, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
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