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WORKER FALLS FROM ROOF OF "NEW" LOW-INCOME HOUSING
Friday, July 1, 2005
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Engine 331 responded to the first of what will surely be many calls at the Overland Apartments at 75th Ave and Landover Road. The complex was named by a construction worker who won a contest to name the complex (get it, it's Landover backwards!). The "Overland" Apartments is a "new" HUD project being built on the grounds of the infamous 75th Avenue Apartments, which provided 33 with much excitement for years. On arrival it was discovered that a roofing worker had fallen 60 feet from the roof of one of the buildings under construction. The worker had sustained trauma to his chest and face and was packaged by the crew of E331 and transfered to the ambulance for transport to PG Trauma. OSHA is investigating...