Labourer dies after fall from scaffolding

A 58-year-old labour­er died af­ter re­port­ed­ly falling from scaf­fold­ing while paint­ing at an at­tor­ney’s home in Gas­par­il­lo on Sat­ur­day.

The man was iden­ti­fied as Patrick Bu­dree of En­ter­prise Street, Ch­agua­nas. Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, Bu­dree and an­oth­er work­er were at the home on Par­force Road at about 9.45 am.

Bu­dree was sit­ting on the left side of a wood­en scaf­fold­ing plank, about eight feet above the ground in­side a shed, when he asked the oth­er work­er to hand him a pan of paint.