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A construction worker took a fall just over a week ago on a construction site when he slipped off a personal lift.
The incident occurred at 11:48 am on Tuesday, November 29, when an emergency call was placed for help.
The unidentified man had fallen 16-feet while working at Brookhaven National Laboratory. At the time, he was working on an old radioactive reactor he was contracted to dismantle. Although he was injured, he was "alert and talking" at the scene of the accident. He was then rushed to Stony Brook University Medical Center.
According to the Lab's spokesman, the worker was tested for radiation after the fall, as per protocol, and was found to be free of toxins. The cause of the fall is still unknown and an investigation is ongoing.
Brookhaven National Labs, run by the US Department of Energy, is located in Upton, Suffolk County. The property includes a graphite research reactor, which the injured man was working to dismantle. The graphite was a cube of 20 feet to each side. Commissioned in the 1940s, the reactor was the first of the Brookhaven site. It was later decommissioned about twenty years later in the 1960s. The graphite and radioactive fuel had already been removed by the time of the accident.
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