I actually witnessed a fatal event the day I was leaving for Toy Fair... before I left work.
They are putting a new light rail line in that will run out of downtown, past my home, past my work and then into the suburbs. Construction started back in September. Two Friday's ago, some sort of concrete deck thing collapsed on two workers, burying them. This was 30 feet from my desk out the window (the train is literally going to run next to my office). They dug and dug and pulled one guy out. He was okay except for his leg looked messed up. Then they went back to work and dug for 45 minutes, using heavy machinery to lift disturbingly large pieces of concrete out of the hole. They even had a firefighter down there with a giant circular saw cutting things at one point.
We were all just standing there waiting for that triumphant moment when they rescued this other guy - but it didn't come. An hour after the hole thing started they pulled a body out of the hole.
It was real sad... all the construction workers were just standing there crying...
Here's an article from the next day:
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