One worker was dead, and another was left in critical condition after falling about nine feet from a scaffold at a construction site of a building for UChicago Medicine, officials said.
Shortly after 12:15 p.m., a construction worker fell from a scaffold during high winds Thursday, landing about 9 feet to the ground, said Larry Langford, Chicago Fire Department spokesman. A second worker also fell to the ground, and is in critical condition at UChicago Medicine, a few steps away from the site.
Officials said the workers were building a new cancer center in the 5600 block of South Maryland Avenue.
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