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Fatal fall in Fairmount
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A construction worker watches after another worker fell from scaffolding at a work site in the city's Fairmount section Monday afternoon and was pronounced dead about 1:45, police said. Authorities said the unidentified 30-year-old man came in contact with a live wire while working on the third floor of a building under construction at 20th and Parrish Streets and fell to the ground. A police spokeswoman said the cause of death was under investigation. (Alejandro A. Alvarez/Staff Photographer)