{"id":288959,"date":"2026-09-18T14:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T14:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288959\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T14:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T14:34:12","slug":"boy-hospitalized-in-grave-condition-after-3-story-fall-from-highland-park-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288959\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy hospitalized in \u2018grave condition\u2019 after 3-story fall from Highland Park roof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A boy was hospitalized Thursday in \u201cgrave condition\u201d after he fell three stories from the roof of a Highland Park building where he was working, Pittsburgh police said.<\/p>\n<p>The boy suffered a \u201cserious head injury\u201d after he fell from the building in the 5800 block of Bryant Street around 10:30 a.m., Eliza Durham, a police spokeswoman, said.<\/p>\n<p>Police did not provide the boy\u2019s name or age, identifying him only as a \u201cjuvenile male.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police said the victim was \u201cdoing roofing work at a construction site\u201d at the time of the fall. They did not elaborate.<\/p>\n<p>First responders rushed the boy to an area hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The police bureau\u2019s violent crime unit responded to the scene, which Durham called \u201ctypical for this type of incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An Occupational Safety and Health Administration spokesman said Thursday that the federal agency is investigating.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman declined further comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A boy was hospitalized Thursday in \u201cgrave condition\u201d after he fell three stories from the roof of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-288959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}