NEW YORK (AP) ?? Authorities say an man has been killed in a 10-story fall while working at a construction site on Manhattan's West Side.
The New York Police Department tells the Times Herald-Record of Middletown ( http://bit.ly/2rLxFRG ) that Roger Vail, of Montgomery in Orange County, was on a platform on the 16th floor of a building at Ninth Avenue and West 33rd Street when the platform collapsed around 6:40 p.m. Monday.
Police say Vail landed on the building's sixth floor. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Daily News reports Vail was a surveyor who was hired to do work at the massive Hudson Yards redevelopment project.
Friends say he was a 62-year-old Middletown native known for drumming in local bands over the past 30 years.
Wow. A surveyor and a drummer. That hits close to home.
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I have found over the years that surveyors tend to be more "Artistic and Creative" as a group than many other professions. Usually involved with music, painting, drawing, poetry, storytelling, etc.
My Dad was a Surveyor, an artist, a poet and a story teller.
I dabble in all of those and occasionally play the guitar.
Sounds like Mr. Vail well fit the mold.
May he RIP and his family flourish.
Another very sad loss...