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Two workers died from injuries they sustained today after falling 40 feet
when a crane tumbled over in Old Fourth Ward near Historic Fourth Ward Park.
Around 1 p.m., the workers, whose names have not been released, were on a
mobile lift on Dallas Street off Glen Iris Drive waterproofing the exterior of
an AMLI apartment building. The equipment got stuck in mud and, when the men
attempted to move it, the crane toppled over toward the park.
Both men sustained critical injuries from the fall and were transported to
Grady Memorial Hospital and the Atlanta Medical Center. Shortly before 3 p.m.,
WSB-TV's Richard Eliot reported that the
Fulton County Medical Examiner had pronounced both men dead
when a crane tumbled over in Old Fourth Ward near Historic Fourth Ward Park.
Around 1 p.m., the workers, whose names have not been released, were on a
mobile lift on Dallas Street off Glen Iris Drive waterproofing the exterior of
an AMLI apartment building. The equipment got stuck in mud and, when the men
attempted to move it, the crane toppled over toward the park.
Both men sustained critical injuries from the fall and were transported to
Grady Memorial Hospital and the Atlanta Medical Center. Shortly before 3 p.m.,
WSB-TV's Richard Eliot reported that the
Fulton County Medical Examiner had pronounced both men dead
Federal safety investigators are looking into what led to an accident in
northeast Atlanta in which two workers fell to their deaths.
Authorities said the men died of trauma after the lift in which they were
working fell to the ground at 525 Glen Iris Drive in northeast Atlanta on
Thursday.
The men have been identified as Rigoberto Lopez, 29, of Marietta, GA, and
Carlos Turner, 42, of Dallas, Georgia.
Atlanta police said the two men were working on the lift at about 1:15 p.m.,
painting and doing water sealing work at Amli Old 4th Ward Apartment Homes.
Atlanta Fire Department Battalion Chief David Rhodes said the men were 40
feet in the air when they began to rock the crane back and forth to try and free
it from soft ground near the curb.
The crane tipped over, and both men fell to the concrete sidewalk below,
authorities said.
One of the men was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital where he died in surgery,
and the other man was taken to Atlanta Medical Center where he died.
Lopez and Turner worked for AGS
Waterproofing.
OSHA, the Occupational Health and Safety
Administration, is investigating the
accident.
northeast Atlanta in which two workers fell to their deaths.
Authorities said the men died of trauma after the lift in which they were
working fell to the ground at 525 Glen Iris Drive in northeast Atlanta on
Thursday.
The men have been identified as Rigoberto Lopez, 29, of Marietta, GA, and
Carlos Turner, 42, of Dallas, Georgia.
Atlanta police said the two men were working on the lift at about 1:15 p.m.,
painting and doing water sealing work at Amli Old 4th Ward Apartment Homes.
Atlanta Fire Department Battalion Chief David Rhodes said the men were 40
feet in the air when they began to rock the crane back and forth to try and free
it from soft ground near the curb.
The crane tipped over, and both men fell to the concrete sidewalk below,
authorities said.
One of the men was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital where he died in surgery,
and the other man was taken to Atlanta Medical Center where he died.
Lopez and Turner worked for AGS
Waterproofing.
OSHA, the Occupational Health and Safety
Administration, is investigating the
accident.
Authorities say two men died after being trapped under a portable lift
following an accident on Thursday.
Officials with the Atlanta Fire Department say the lift accident occurred at
the new belt line construction area near Glenn Iris Drive. The lift collapsed
while the men were waterproofing an apartment building. A wheel on the manlift
appeared to get stuck.
The lift flipped, dropping the men 40 feet, according to Battalion Chief
David Rhodes of the Atlanta Fire Department.
A witness said police immediately sprung into action and administered CPR.
The men were transported to Grady Memorial Hospital, where they were pronounced
dead.
OSHA officials and Homeland Security are investigating the incident.
The names of the victims have not been released.
following an accident on Thursday.
Officials with the Atlanta Fire Department say the lift accident occurred at
the new belt line construction area near Glenn Iris Drive. The lift collapsed
while the men were waterproofing an apartment building. A wheel on the manlift
appeared to get stuck.
The lift flipped, dropping the men 40 feet, according to Battalion Chief
David Rhodes of the Atlanta Fire Department.
A witness said police immediately sprung into action and administered CPR.
The men were transported to Grady Memorial Hospital, where they were pronounced
dead.
OSHA officials and Homeland Security are investigating the incident.
The names of the victims have not been released.
Two men were killed in Atlanta Thursday when a piece of heavy machinery they
were working in toppled, officials said.
The lift was on Dallas Street off the 500 block
of Glen Iris Drive when it fell over at about 1 p.m., officials at the scene
said
o men were performing maintenance on the
Amli Old 4th Ward Apartment Homes when the accident happened around 1 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011.
The equipment, described as an 80-foot lift,
toppled at about 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011.
The men, Rigoberto Lopez, 29, and Karlos Turner, 42, were working in what was
described by emergency workers as an 80-foot lift. The lift was on Dallas Street
off the 500 block of Glen Iris Drive when it fell over at about 1 p.m.,
officials at the scene said.
The men died from the fall, said an investigator with the Fulton County
Medical Examiner's Office. The lift was extended to a height of 40 feet
according to emergency officials on the scene, who spoke with an AJC
photographer. The medical examiner's office said the men were not crushed by the
machine.
The men were working on the exterior of Amli Old 4th Ward Apartment Homes
when the mobile lift got stuck. When the workers tried to move the lift, it fell
onto a concrete walkway across the street.
Witnesses in the area said they heard the sound of the lift crashing to the
ground.
"There was a big crash," Dave Delchamps told Channel 2 Action News.
Delchamps rushed over to see what he could do to help and saw the two
contractors sprawled out on the ground.
"The first thing I saw was a guy's leg over the side of the bucket on the
crane," said Delchamps, who called 911. "Another guy was in the grass."
Lopez, of Marietta, and Turner, of Dallas, were both transported to local
hospitals, where they later died.
Turner previously owned his own building company, according to the Georgia Secretary of State's office. He was a 1987
graduate of Wheeler High School and was married with two children, according to
his Facebook profile.
Information about Lopez was not immediately available Thursday evening.