Overview
- The worker, who fell Wednesday at a building on Córdoba in the Lourdes neighborhood, died hours later at the Hospital de Emergencias Clemente Álvarez.
- Emergency crews from police motor units, the city’s medical service SIES, and firefighters rescued him with severe head and pelvic injuries.
- Fire officials said he dropped the height of roughly six to seven floors and was found trapped near the first floor of the shaft.
- This fatality is the fifth construction-site accident in Rosario since April 16 and the third to result in a death, according to local incident records.
- Recent cases include a fatal roof fall, a painter killed after a ladder broke, a 65-year-old who fell while taking down an antenna, and a 31-year-old hospitalized after a fall, while union leaders had not commented on safety measures.