Worker killed by wall collapse on construction site

by | May 6, 2021 | Newton | 1 comment

The Newton Tab reports that this morning at 8 AM, a 10 foot concrete wall at a new home construction site on Winchester St collapsed.  The collapse trapped a worker under the debris.

When the Newton Fire Dept arrived they determined that the worker had been killed by the collapse.  The victim has not yet been identified

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  1. Meredith Warshaw
    Meredith Warshaw on May 7, 2021 at 1:19 pm

    Very sad news. From today’s Boston Globe:

    A Billerica man was identified as the person killed when a concrete wall fell on him Thursday while he was working at a Newton house undergoing renovation and expansion.

    Russell J. Harron, 55, was pronounced dead at the scene on Winchester Street and he was identified as the victim of the on-the-job fatality by Middlesex District Attorney Marian T. Ryan’s office on Friday.

    The cause of the incident is under investigation by Ryan, State, and Newton police along with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the federal workplace safety agency.

    Harron was working for M. DiStasio Excavation Contractors of North Reading, but it was not known if the company was responsible for building the foundation of what was to be a two-story expansion in the rear of the single-family home.

    https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/05/07/metro/billerica-man-identified-worker-killed-fatal-construction-accident-newton/