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Last updated on Thursday, April 26, 2018
(BLOOMINGTON) - A construction worker was killed after a large piece of limestone being installed above a doorway fell and killed him while working at Swain Hall West on Indiana University’s campus on Wednesday afternoon.
Monroe County Coroner Joani Shields says 35-year-old William M. Brown Jr. of Bloomington was working with other crew members using equipment to lift a 6 foot long piece of limestone above an interior doorway on the north side of the building when it fell striking Brown in the head and chest.
Fellow construction workers began CPR and dialed 911 at 2:52 p.m.
An autopsy is been this morning in Terre Haute.
Finch Constructors and Pepper Construction has been working on the $36 million renovation, which includes building a new entryway, upgrading heating, cooling and other mechanical systems and cleaning and tuckpointing the exterior limestone walls.
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