Report claims that 65-year old demolition man was in unauthorised area of hotel site.
A demolition worker killed by the fall of a 1,000-pound chunk of the historic Flagship Hotel in Galveston shouldn’t have been in that part of the building at the time, according to city of Galveston documents.
The Galveston Daily News reports that a letter included in the documents from a structural engineers indicates 65-year old Tauelangi Angilau should have avoided the area.
In the documents, which were released to the Daily News after a freedom of information request to the Texas Attorney General’s office, an eyewitness says workers were initially dispatched to the area to remove fuel cans that might have caused an explosion in a collapse.
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