WEYMOUTH, Mass. — One person was killed and four others were hospitalized after a house under construction collapsed in Weymouth on Tuesday morning, officials said.
Officers and firefighters responding to a report of a construction collapse at a single-family home on Vine Street shortly before noon learned that one person was trapped in the rubble and requested assistance from a technical rescue team, according to Weymouth Deputy Fire Chief Tom Murphy.
The technical rescue team used hand tools to gain access to the trapped construction worker, Murphy said during an afternoon news conference. The victim, 29-year-old Mario Diaz Obando, was unconscious and suffering from serious injuries when he was rushed to South Shore Hospital. Obando died from his injuries at the hospital, the Norfolk County District Attorney’s office said in an update hours later.
Four other people working on the home escaped the collapse without help. Murphy said they were transported from the scene with various minor injuries, including head trauma.
There were no injuries to first responders.
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When asked to describe the collapse, Murphy told reporters, “It looked like the building got pushed over.”
While it’s still unclear if wind factored into the collapse, the incident came on a day when wind gusts of 35-50 mph were forecasted across the region.
Shortly before the collapse in Weymouth, scaffolding was toppled over in a construction accident in Quincy.
The collapse is under investigation by the United States Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents, Weymouth Police, and the Massachusetts State Police assigned to the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office.
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