Construction Worker Falls While Working on New $1 Million Scoreboard at Eagle Pass Independent School District Student Activity Center’s Cozel Foster-Veterans Memorial Stadium
By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2020
A construction worker fell approximately 30 feet to the ground while working on the installation of the new $1 Million digital video scoreboard at the Eagle Pass Independent School District Student Activity Center’s Cozel Foster-Veterans Memorial Stadium on Wednesday, June 17, 2020, in Eagle Pass, Texas.
The worker is reported being an electrician employed as a sub-contractor on the $1 Million digital video scoreboard project.
The Eagle Pass Fire Department EMS Ambulance was summoned to the Cozel Foster-Veterans Memorial Stadium to provide emergency services and transported the seriously injured worker to the Fort Duncan Regional Medical Center in Eagle Pass, about a mile away from the accident site.
Preliminary reports are that the injured electrician suffered injuries to his head and body. After being stabilized, the injured worker was transferred to a San Antonio, Texas medical center for treatment of his severe injuries.
The accident is under investigation by the appropriate authorities.
