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Yahoo Biz Article
Wednesday July 11, 11:24 am ET
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) -- Two workers were killed after falling between 500 and 800 feet from a broadcast tower. The two men fell Tuesday morning while installing telecommunications equipment on the tower two miles east of Lawrence, said Sheriff's Lt. Kari Wempe.
She said the men were pronounced dead at the scene. Their names have not been released pending notification of next of kin.Cliff Allison, vice president and general manager of KSHB-TV and KMCI-TV in Kansas City, Mo., said contractors were installing a new antenna as part of Sprint Nextel Corp.'s bandwidth conversion of its Nextel network. Allison said his company no longer owns the tower but uses it for relaying broadcasts from Lawrence.
"It's very tragic," he said.Wempe said the sheriff's office is working with the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration to see what caused the accident.
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man, its rough out there.