A Camden County man died Monday morning after being
struck by a one-pound tape measure that fell 50 stories from a high-rise under
construction in Jersey City, N.J., authorities said.
Gary Anderson, 58, of Somerdale, was delivering drywall
to the downtown construction site about 8:40 a.m. when the tape measure fell
off the belt of a worker on the top of the building, said Carly Baldwin, Jersey
City public safety spokeswoman.
The tape measure "hit another piece of metal
construction equipment 15 feet off the ground, then ricocheted and hit this man
in the head," Baldwin said.
Anderson was not wearing a hard hat but had one inside
his truck, which was parked on the construction site, where two residential
towers are being built, Baldwin said.
He had stopped to lean into the open window of a vehicle
to speak to someone. When he pulled his head out of the window, he was struck
by the tape measure and collapsed.
Anderson was rushed to Jersey City Medical
Center-Barnabas Health, where he went into cardiac arrest. He was pronounced
dead at 9:52 a.m.
Baldwin said an official cause of death had not been
released.
A woman answering the phone at Anderson's home said the
family did not want to speak to reporters.
"Upon preliminary investigation, it appears to be a
very tragic accident," Public Safety Director James Shea said in a
statement.
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration
responded to the scene and conducted interviews, Baldwin said.
Anderson worked for National Gypsum, a North Carolina
company, according to police.
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