More details from yesterday’s accident at a construction site in Boston are being heard today. A 10-ton orange metal platform fell 13 stories down onto Boylston Street during the lunch hour and it’s been announced that three people were killed. Two victims were construction workers, who were thought to be working for the subcontractor, Boston Masonry: Romildo Silva, 27, and Robert Beane, 41. Michael Tsan Ty, 28, a doctor at Brigham and Women's Hospital, was killed in his car, which was on the street sitting in traffic below.
After yesterday’s horrific events which were plastered all over the local and national media this morning, the city of Boston has cited the contractor, Macomber Builders, with its first violation of “unsafe and dangerous working conditions.” According to CBS-4 this afternoon, it’s going to take at least another six months before we really know the cause of the accident. The construction company was putting limestone on the building’s façade; once complete, the building will be a dorm to 560 Emerson students this fall semester.
Image courtesy of WHDH-7
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