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Columbus Worker Dies In Construction Fall.
Associated Press (2009-07-02)
DUBLIN. OH (wosu) - Officials say one man died and two co-workers were hurt when scaffolding collapsed at a suburban Columbus construction project.

Dublin spokesman Michael Racey says Wilbert Johnson, 52, of Columbus was killed in the accident late Wednesday morning at the site of the new corporate
headquarters for natural gas supplier IGS Energy.

Racey says exactly what happened to the scaffold is unclear, though something "gave way." The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration will investigate the death.

One of the injured was treated at a hospital and then released, the other was admitted with injuries that were not life threatening. Racey says all three were masons laying brick on the building.
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