HAVERHILL, MASS. (WHDH) - Authorities have identified the construction worker who died Tuesday morning after falling down an elevator shaft in Haverhill.
Officers responding to a construction site at 98 Essex St. just before 10:30 a.m. found 41-year-old Carlos Ortiz and determined he had fallen down an elevator shaft while working on the roof of a nine-story building, according to a spokeswoman for the Essex County District Attorney’s Office.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is assisting state and local police with an investigation.
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