Struck-by Incidents (Construction) Fatality File

Construction worker killed in struck-by accident on Virginia jobsite

A Maryland construction worker, 55-year-old Nelson Aguilar-Salamanca, was killed Monday after being hit by a piece of rebar at a construction site in McLean, Virginia, according to the Fairfax County (Virginia) Police Department (FCPD).

The FCPD said that in Aguilar-Salamanca was working the 1600 block of Capital One Drive, where financial services firm Capital One has a large campus, when the rebar being lifted by a crane fell and struck him. Aguilar-Salamanca died of his injuries at a nearby hospital. There were no other reported injuries related to the accident.

The department’s Major Crimes Bureau is investigating the incident and is awaiting the results of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner’s autopsy to confirm Aguilar-Salamanca’s cause of death. The FCPD is also encouraging those who witnessed the accident to contact the department.