Overview
- The accident occurred Thursday around 5:20 p.m. at a construction site in Munich’s Schwabing-Freimann district.
- A colleague found the man at the bottom of an elevator shaft on the third basement level, and a responding emergency doctor pronounced him dead.
- Preliminary police findings indicate the fall was at least 15 meters.
- Authorities identified the deceased as a 54-year-old Romanian who lived in the Munich district and worked on the site.
- Kommissariat 13 has taken over the case to determine how the fall happened, and investigators have not reported a cause.