Family of David O’Donnell files lawsuit after worker killed in Hyde Park, Chicago construction site scaffolding fall [Video]

CHICAGO (WLS) — The family of a man who fell to his death at a construction site earlier this month filed a lawsuit Thursday.

The legal battle continues this week from the tragic construction accident that killed one man and seriously hurt another on June 6.

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David O’Donnell and Jeff Spyrka were working on the new cancer pavilion project at the University of Chicago when the scaffolding came apart, causing them to fall more than 100 feet.

It was a 4×4 sheet of plywood, and by no circumstances should that have been holding the west scaffold and the south scaffolding together.

Louis Antony Cairo, GWC law attorney

O’Donnell, who was just 26 years old, died from his injuries while Jeff Spyrka is still in the hospital with serious injuries to his brain and body.

Spyrka’s family also filed a lawsuit last week. Their lawsuit alleged workers complained about the stability of that corner days earlier, when …