Worker repairing gutters dies after fall from ladder, police say
A worker has died after falling from a ladder while repairing gutters on a house in Rockland County.
Police Chief Steven Dixon in Cornwall-on-Hudson tells the Times Herald-Record of Middletown that 38-year-old Marco Morocho of Spring Valley suffered the fatal fall shortly before 11 a.m. Friday. Dixon says Morocho was standing on a folding metal ladder on a subroof of a house when he fell, landing on a concrete sidewalk.
Dixon says Morocho suffered head injuries and went into cardiac arrest at the scene. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Dixon says the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration will investigate.
Morocho was employed by Serrano II Roofing Company of Middletown.
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