Worker Falls To Death At Queens Building Under Construction

CBS New York

May 23, 2021

A worker fell to his death from a scaffold at a construction site in Queens, officials said.

Diego Lliguicota, 32, fell from a scaffold at 9:30 a.m. Saturday as he was trying to remove a ladder on the sixth floor of a building on Court Square in Maspeth, authorities said.

Lliguicota was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

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