Worker killed in two-story fall at house

A construction worker framing a new house in Delaware died Saturday when he fell from the second story to the basement, police said.

A 911 call was made to the Delaware police just before noon. The accident occurred at the under-construction home in the area of 700 Eagle Walk Road, in the Reserve at Glenross subdivision in the southeast part of the city, north of Cheshire Road.

The 47-year-old Columbus man was building a wall when he fell, Delaware police Capt. Adam Moore said. The man’s name wasn’t released pending notification of his immediate family, who do not live in the United States, Moore said.

Exactly what caused him to fall — whether he misstepped or equipment malfunctioned, or whether he suffered a medical condition — is still under investigation, in part because there was a language barrier at the scene, Moore said.

Because it is a workrelated accident, other agencies will investigate, Moore said. The Delaware County coroner also was at the scene.

Various websites list the builder in that subdivision as Pulte Homes.

Another construction worker died in Delaware County earlier this year, just a few miles from the site of Saturday’s accident.

In that incident, 34-year-old Luis Pillcorema of Columbus died on March 30 at a development on Wrenbury Drive in the Cheshire Woods subdivision. Pillcorema’s team of construction workers was using a crane to install I-beams above the completed basement of a home when a beam came loose and struck him.