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Worker killed in fall from Newton tower

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DanStrassberg

I barely caught the item as I tuned through a newscast on (I think) WXKS (AM). If the item was correct, a tower worked was killed today (10/12/2011) in a ~1000' fall from what sounded like the FM-128 tower in Newton. Anyone have more details?
 
Yes Fybush on twitter had a link to the article from Ch 5, and also one to the Tower of the Week about that particular tower. It was said in the article that the worker was a contractor for American Tower. The worker fell from a height some 200 feet higher than that of the Hancock Tower--horrific....thoughts and prayers to his family.
 
I guess it was about two years ago, I noticed that WNNW-AM 800 was off-the-air. Later in the day, I was near the tower on Chandler St. in Andover. A couple of men were near the tippity-top installing a dish, right above the FM translator antenna. They were "only" about 200-feet-plus above ground but looked like very small figurines. Even using binoculars I couldn't tell if they were strapped to the tower or working "freestyle". It occurred to me that if either man fell at that point, it would be all over for him. There must be a cadre of travelling men who work on towers all the time. (Most of you have probably seen the free climber on the Houston TV tower). I've also seen a documentary about the Native Americans who do that work on skyscrapers.
 
If you think that is bad. Back around 1997 three workers were replacing the guy wires on WLBT Jackson, MS The entire 2000' tower came down. An engineer below heard a scream over the radio and ran into the transmitter building and got under some furniture in the nick of time. Luckily he lived to tell about it. The three guys on the tower weren't so lucky. They rode the tower all the way to the ground.
 
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