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OSHA Probes Convention Center Fatality

ORLANDO-The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration opened a formal investigation today in the death of a 36-year-old construction worker whose harness broke as he was working on a rooftop scaffold, 60 feet above the Orange County Convention Center's floor.

By Alex Finkelstein | Updated on July 23, 2001

ORLANDO-The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s regional office in Tampa, FL opened a formal investigation today in the death of a 36-year-old construction worker whose harness assembly broke as he was working on a rooftop scafford 60 feet above the Orange County Convention Center’s floor.

OSHA and convention center officials declined comment. But subcontractors working on the $750 million, 972,000-sf expansion of the four million-sf (gross) center, tell GlobeSt.com on condition of anonymity, OSHA specifically wants to know why and how a cable holding the harness snapped and caused the death of Scott Clontz on July 20.

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