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    :: Monday, December 18, 2006 ::

    sometimes lucky, but usually dead...

    Construction worker from Catonsville dies in fall - Baltimore Sun, MD
    "and plummeting six or seven stories onto a concrete deck"
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    Construction worker dies in fall from coliseum roof - Indianapolis Star, IN
    "A construction worker slipped off a wet roof and fell 42 feet to his death..."
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    FALL: MAN TUMBLES THROUGH ROOF - Marion Chronicle Tribune, IN
    'I'd say he was pretty lucky, all things considered. It's 20 feet that he went, and it was a cement floor that he landed on.'
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    Construction worker falls 30 feet from Main Street structure - Annapolis Capital, MD
    "when he fell 30 feet from a scaffold ... when 'the apparent scaffolding failure' took place."
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    DWP Identifies Worker Killed in Fall at Plant - Signal, CA
    "when he fell 60 feet from a scaffold, into a flood control panel"
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