Three construction workers were struck by lightning last week while working atop an Atlantic City casino project. The construction site accident occurred at roughly 3:30 p.m. on September 15 during a brief storm that erupted over the city. One of the construction workers was killed in the lightning strike. Two other workers suffered injury.

Fire Chief Dennis Brooks told the Associated Press that the worker who died was "in bad shape" when emergency responders reached the construction site. Emergency personnel provided the injured worker cardiopulmonary resuscitation while they transported the worker down from the seventh floor of the 48-story construction project.

The construction workers were pouring concrete on the seventh floor of the project at the time of the lightning strike. The workers were using a bucket lift when a bolt reportedly struck the bucket. "One guy got a glancing hit, and he sustained a minor injury. Another guy got the full brunt of it. We did CPR all the way down to him and on the way to the hospital," Chief Brooks told the Associated Press.

The worker who required CPR during transport from the New Jersey construction site accident, a Linwood resident, did not survive. One of the two other injured workers declined medical treatment at the scene.

This is not the first incident related to the construction project. In 2008, eight people died in a plane crash in the Midwest as executives were en route to meet with a glass manufacturer related to the project.

A crane on the roof of the project was previously toppled by a high wind. As welders worked on the toppled crane, a fire broke out. Workers were able to extinguish that fire quickly, according to the Associated Press. The AP does not indicate if any injuries occurred during the two incidents involving the crane.

Source: Associated Press via CBS News, "Lightning strike kills worker at NJ Casino site," Wayne Parry, Sept. 15, 2011