Worker falls from building, dies

CEBU.Two workers fell from the 11th floor of the FLB Corporate Center, which is being built along Archbishop Reyes Ave. in the Cebu Business Park. They were reportedly painting a wall around 9:20 a.m. when the ropes that held up their platform snapped. (Amper Campaa)

CEBU CITY -- A construction worker died while three others were injured after two of them fell from the building they were working on in Barangay Mabolo, Cebu City at 9:20 a.m. Tuesday.

The ropes that held the improvised lift they were standing on reportedly snapped, causing Jovito Alvarado, 42, and Cristino Cupta, 21, to fall from the 11th floor of the FLB Corporate Center.

Cebu Citys Office of the Building Official (OBO) will inspect the building, which is being constructed along Archbishop Reyes Ave. and within the Cebu Business Park, near a terminal.

We will check if the accident was due to the lack of proper safety and security measures or if there was any problem in the structure, said the OBO chief, Engr. Jose Marie Poblete.

Tan-awon nato ni tanan (We will look at everything).

Jovito and Cupta were standing on an improvised gondola lift,a platform supported by two parallel ropes attached to a steel bar. They had started painting the outside wall of the building around7 a.m.

Two hours later,the rope attached to the scaffolding reportedly snapped, causing Jovito and Cupta to fall.

Their harnesses were reportedly not tied properly to the gondolas rope. They tried to latch on it but fell, said SPO1 Ruth Violango of the Homicide Section.

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