Overview
- The 72-year-old maintenance worker was pronounced dead at the scene, and a second worker was hospitalized at South Shore Hospital with serious injuries.
- Rockland police received multiple 911 calls around 10:42 a.m. to 24 North Ave., where the men fell from a boom lift while trimming trees at the Brentwood Arms complex.
- Rockland Fire Captain David Cowing estimated the fall at roughly 40 to 45 feet.
- Rockland police, the Massachusetts State Police, and the Plymouth County district attorney’s office are leading the investigation.
- The district attorney’s office said OSHA is not involved, and authorities are examining preliminary reports that the workers may not have been wearing harnesses.