Boy, 13, dies after falling through skylight at airport
Investigators believe Austin Bailey, of Temple, climbed onto the roof of the main hangar and stepped onto a skylight, Capt. Rosanna Dove with the Peachtree City Police Department said in a news release. The skylight gave way and Austin fell into the hangar, Dove said.
The teen was transported to Piedmont-Fayette Hospital, where he died shortly after 1 p.m.
The hangar is currently being re-roofed by a Villa Rica company that employs the boyfriend of Austin's mother, Dove said. Austin, who was home schooled, had accompanied his soon-to-be stepfather to work, Dove said.
"He just climbed up on the roof," Dove said. "Nobody was up there with him."
A spokeswoman for the airport declined to discuss the incident when reached by telephone Friday afternoon.
Airport officials have contacted OSHA to investigate, Dove said.A 13-year-old west Georgia boy died Friday afternoon after falling 25 feet at the Peachtree City-Falcon Field Airport.
Investigators believe Austin Bailey, of Temple, climbed onto the roof of the main hangar and stepped onto a skylight, Capt. Rosanna Dove with the Peachtree City Police Department said in a news release. The skylight gave way and Austin fell into the hangar, Dove said.
The teen was transported to Piedmont-Fayette Hospital, where he died shortly after 1 p.m.
The hangar is currently being re-roofed by a Villa Rica company that employs the boyfriend of Austin's mother, Dove said. Austin, who was home schooled, had accompanied his soon-to-be stepfather to work, Dove said.
"He just climbed up on the roof," Dove said. "Nobody was up there with him."
A spokeswoman for the airport declined to discuss the incident when reached by telephone Friday afternoon.
Airport officials have contacted OSHA to investigate, Dove said.
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He fell through the skylight because he was home-schooled, and not because the adult he was with is an idiot?
HowTF does a kid get allowed to climb onto a roof and climb onto a skylight?
Somehow I feel this will hamper any plans of matrimony for the kid's poor mom.
I notice they say there will be an OSHA investigation.
My dad is a risk manager for a company that insures construction sites and small machine shops and the like. He does accident investigation, site inspection, and teaches OSHA certification to employees. He'd have an aneurysm if this happened on one of their job sites. I can't even imagine all that would have to go wrong for a 13 year old to be alone on the roof.
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