Man, 63, fatally injured while working at West Side pumping station
Emergency crews responded to a call of a worker injured at a West Side pumping station on Thursday.
Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
A 63-year-old man was fatally injured while working at a West Side pumping station Wednesday morning.
The man was working about 9 a.m. in the 3500 block of West Fillmore Street when he suffered an injury and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
The man, who was not a city employee, was likely electrocuted, according to Chicago fire officials.
Chicago police are conducting a death investigation.