OSHA probes death of Notre Dame videographer

Indiana’s workplace safety agency is investigating the death of a Notre Dame student after the tower from which he was filming football practice fell over.

Declan Sullivan of Long Grove, Ill., died at a hospital on Wednesday after the scissor lift the 20-year-old student was in was in toppled amid winds gusting over 50 mph.

It was not clear who made the lift. But one manufacturer of scissor lifts, HHS Wire, says on its website that the device should not be used in winds above 25 mph.

Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration spokesman Marc Lotter said Thursday the agency had an investigator on the scene in South Bend. He says it’s too early to say when the agency, which has the authority to levee fines, might release a report.