According to WTVJ, <\/a>Maria Fernanda Gonz\u00e1lez Garcia, 25, a construction worker, died shortly after arriving at a hospital after she was struck by a structural column that fell from a luxury skyscraper under construction in Miami, Florida.<\/p>\nAccording to reports, the incident occurred at the Okan Tower construction site on North Miami Avenue near Northwest 6th Street.<\/p>\n
Officials said a structural column that was being erected on the building’s top floor fell, trapping several workers beneath it. Multiple workers were injured by the falling structure and were transported to a local trauma center, according to WTVJ.<\/p>\n
Gonz\u00e1lez Garcia died shortly after arriving at the hospital. A male worker also suffered serious injuries and faces a lengthy recovery, according to the report.<\/p>\n
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Okan Tower is a 70-story hotel and condominium tower that is expected to rise more than 900 feet above downtown Miami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI, Fla. (WKRC) – A woman died after a column fell from a structure that was under construction.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-297616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}