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Naked Worker Found Dead At Construction Site
OSHA, Police Are Investigating
POSTED: 8:39 am EST January 10, 2007
UPDATED: 10:37 am EST January 10, 2007
WASHINGTON -- Work at the Newseum construction site in northwest D.C. has been suspended for the day while the circumstances of a man's death are investigated.
The construction site is located at 555 Pennsylvania Ave.
Turner Construction is in charge of the project. A spokesman said workers found the naked body of a man employed by Otis, a subcontractor hired to work on the building's elevators, at the bottom of an elevator shaft when they arrived for work shortly before 6:30 a.m.
"He was an employee of one of our subcontractors, but at this point we don't know what the circumstances were that caused the fatality," said Bill Brennan, Turner's executive vice president. "Police are treating it as a crime, though, because of some evidentiary things they discovered."
Authorities don't know when the man fell and no one saw him fall. They said he was at work on Tuesday and worked throughout the day.
Officials said they believe the unidentified worker fell from the fourth floor of the building. His clothes were found nearby.
The six-level, 600,000 square-foot building project will replace the original Newseum, which closed in Arlington, Va., in 2002.
The Newseum is dedicated to news and the history of journalism.
Besides hosting the journalism museum and the First Amendment advocacy group called The Freedom Forum, the building will also include condominiums and retail space.
Brennan said investigators with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, as well as D.C. police, are trying to determine what happened.
Stay with News4 and nbc4.com for complete coverage.
Copyright 2007 by nbc4.com.
Naked Worker Found Dead At Construction Site
OSHA, Police Are Investigating
POSTED: 8:39 am EST January 10, 2007
UPDATED: 10:37 am EST January 10, 2007
WASHINGTON -- Work at the Newseum construction site in northwest D.C. has been suspended for the day while the circumstances of a man's death are investigated.
The construction site is located at 555 Pennsylvania Ave.
Turner Construction is in charge of the project. A spokesman said workers found the naked body of a man employed by Otis, a subcontractor hired to work on the building's elevators, at the bottom of an elevator shaft when they arrived for work shortly before 6:30 a.m.
"He was an employee of one of our subcontractors, but at this point we don't know what the circumstances were that caused the fatality," said Bill Brennan, Turner's executive vice president. "Police are treating it as a crime, though, because of some evidentiary things they discovered."
Authorities don't know when the man fell and no one saw him fall. They said he was at work on Tuesday and worked throughout the day.
Officials said they believe the unidentified worker fell from the fourth floor of the building. His clothes were found nearby.
The six-level, 600,000 square-foot building project will replace the original Newseum, which closed in Arlington, Va., in 2002.
The Newseum is dedicated to news and the history of journalism.
Besides hosting the journalism museum and the First Amendment advocacy group called The Freedom Forum, the building will also include condominiums and retail space.
Brennan said investigators with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, as well as D.C. police, are trying to determine what happened.
Stay with News4 and nbc4.com for complete coverage.
Copyright 2007 by nbc4.com.
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