Crime & Safety
Westchester Worker Dies In Fall On Long Island
His was one of two fatal falls Monday in West Hills and Holbrook.
PEEKSKILL, NY — Hector Aranda-Sanchez of Peekskill died Monday when he fell off a roof on Long Island.
He was working on the roof of Four Seasons Sunrooms and Windows at 5005 Veterans Memorial Highway when he fell at 3:40 p.m. He was pronounced dead at Long Island Community Hospital.
Aranda-Sanchez, 27, worked for John's Home Improvement, a Yonkers-based roofing company, police said.
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He was the second man to die in a fall while working on Long Island Monday.
The first accident occurred in West Hills shortly before 11 a.m. Vicente Oliver, a landscaper for Rodney's Landscaping, was trimming a tree outside a home on Bluebird Lane when a branch he was secured to broke and he fell about 40 feet to the ground, Suffolk police said.
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Oliver, 51, of Levittown, was taken by ambulance to Huntington Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration was notified of both accidents and is investigating.
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