Construction accident kills worker at private school in Virginia
June 16, 2015
A construction worker at a private school in Richmond, Va., was killed Monday when his saw misfired while doing masonry work on a roof of a dining facility under construction.
WTVR-TV reports that the worker, a 42-year-old man whose identity was not disclosed, was part of a construction crew at Collegiate School. The saw he was using misfired and fatally cut him.
Collegiate is building a new dining hall, named Centennial Hall, for its lower campus. The project was scheduled to be completed this summer.
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