A construction worker lost his life when a steel beam weighing 45 tons fell at a construction site. The accident occurred during the early morning hours of Tuesday, April 5, under a Jane Addams Memorial Tollway bridge in the northwestern part of suburban Des Plaines. According to Des Plaines Police Chief Bill Kushner, the workers were performing construction work at approximately 3:40 a.m. on the I-90 bridge over Touhy Avenue when an overpass beam fell. Des Plaines Fire Chief Alan Wax informed reporters that the workers were under the beam on two different lifts at the time of its collapse. <\/p>\n
The Cook County Medical Examiner\u2019s office said that one of the workers was Vincent S. Santoyo, who was 47 years old. He was transported to Lutheran General Hospital, where he was declared dead. An autopsy revealed that the cause of death was blunt force trauma of the torso. <\/p>\n