Crime & Safety
Construction Worker Dies After Equipment Hits Live Wire
40-year-old Stamford man identified by police.
Authorities announced Friday the name of a construction worker who died in what police are calling a tragic electrocution accident at 300 Stillwater Ave. while using heavy machinery.
Juan Orozco, 40, of E. Walnut St. in the South End section of Stamford, was killed while using a forklift to place an I-beam above a sprinkler system, Capt.Richard Conklin said. He believed the beam came into contact with a wire hanging from a light fixture there.
Orozco was working for the Westport-based company Welding Services, Inc., Conklin said.
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Federal Occupational Safety & Health Administration officials also responded to the scene.
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