PEORIA, Ill. — A Peoria man dies after a fall from scaffolding at a local business.
The Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood identified the man as 62-year-old Mark D. Russell of Peoria.
Harwood said Russell was painting around 6:00 p.m. Thursday, when he fell 12 feet from the scaffolding he was working from, at the former Trefzger’s building at 3504 N. Prospect Ave.
Russell received CPR from a bystander before being transported to OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in critical condition.
He was pronounced deceased at 8:08 p.m.
“Russell suffered multiple blunt force trauma injuries and head trauma from the fall,” according to Harwood.
There will be no autopsy.
No foul play was suspected.
