Posted On:
August 14, 2009
YOUNG BOY KILLED IN CONSTRUCTION ACCIDENT
A 9-year-old boy was tragically killed this past Tuesday after being crushed under a front-end loader of a Bobcat at a construction site on the south side of Chicago. The boy's father was converting a three bedroom flat into a condominium and had been performing work at the site for weeks. Witnesses had seen the boy and his brother at the site with their father on a number of occasions.
The boy was riding on a Bobcat when the tractor hit a pile of dirt causing the boy to be thrown from the cab of the front-end loader. The Bobcat then fell over onto the boy, crushing him. The boy was rushed to the University of Chicago's Comer Children's Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
My most heartfelt condolences to this family.
