PUNE: A 27-year-old construction worker died after a brick fell on her head at an construction site in Katraj on Tuesday afternoon.
Senior inspector Jagannath Kalaskar of Bharati Vidyapeeth police said, “We have registered a case under section 304 (A) (causing death due to negligence) of the Indian Penal Code against the contractor, who is also the husband of the deceased, Anjubai Narayan Pawar.”
Police said the contractor did not install safety nets and did not provide helmets to the workers. “The deceased had put bricks in an open elevator. The elevator was moving up to the top floor of the four-storey under-construction building when one of the bricks fell down on her head,” he said.
