Tower tech falls to his death in South Florida
May 22, 2008 - A worker employed by Structural Systems Technology, Inc. of McLean, Virginia fell to his death at 12:04 p.m. today north of Miami, Florida, according to a spokesman for Miami Dade Fire Rescue.
Darren Joe Reed had been performing maintenance work on the Channel 7 WSVN tower at 502 NW 207th St.
The area is called the antenna farm, where many broadcast companies maintain towers. The structures are landmark locations and can be seen while flying into Miami or Ft. Lauderdale airports, and are visible from I-95 and the Florida Turnpike.
The death was the seventh fatality this year of a worker falling from a communications structure.
A spokeswoman for the Fox affiliate said that the station did not have any additional information at this time.
Structural Systems Technology has been designing and constructing towers and related facilities worldwide for over 30 years.
On June 2, 1988, three SST workers were killed when the 2,000-foot Kirksville, MO television tower they were reinforcing collapsed. The KTVO-TV tower, owned at that time by Federal Broadcasting, was undergoing a structural upgrade and fell during calm weather as braces were being replaced.
A SST worker was injured on January 11, 2008, when a 2,000-foot TV tower collapsed in Redfield, Arkansas while a crew was reguying the structure.
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