BELLEVUE, Wash. — A worker has died in an accident at a construction site on eastbound State Route 520 near 148th Avenue Northeast in Bellevue, according to the Washington State Patrol.
The man fell 30 to 40 feet off a pier cap where a girder was being placed at about 2:40 a.m. Tuesday.
CPR was performed by Bellevue fire medics, but the victim later died at Harborview Medical Center.
KIRO 7 video showed workers at the scene wearing safety cables, but it is yet not known if the worker who died was wearing one when they fell.
"He was a foreman with Kiewit. (He) had been a longtime employee, was very well liked and well known. And our hearts just go out to his family and everyone who worked with him - it's a terrible tragedy," Rachelle Cunningham, a Sound Transit spokesperson, told KIRO 7's Michael Spears.
The victim worked for Kiewit-Hoffman, a contractor working for Sound Transit.
The accident occurred in the area where girder construction is being done for the new east link light rail.
The Department of Labor & Industries is handling the investigation.
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