{"id":371792,"date":"2026-07-13T23:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371792\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T23:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:24:16","slug":"investigation-underway-after-man-falls-to-his-death-down-30-foot-shaft-at-e-harris-county-construction-death-hcso-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371792\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation underway after man falls to his death down 30-foot shaft at E. Harris County construction death, HCSO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sarah Al-Shaikh Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/17722771_KTRK-Sarah-Al-Shaikh-Bio-IMG.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Monday, July 13, 2026 8:39PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"ABC13 Houston 24\/7 Live Stream\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; An investigation is underway on Monday following the death of a man who fell into a shaft at a construction site in northeast Harris County, according to the Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Sheriff Ed Gonzalez posted on social media that the incident occurred in the 15800 block of Sheldon Ridge Way, near Garrett Road, around 7:40 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The sheriff&#8217;s office confirmed to ABC13 that the 47-year-old man was involved in an altercation with his co-worker near the area before he fell. The Sheldon Fire Department said it responded and pronounced the man dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials said it is unclear if the man was pushed or fell down the 30- to 40-foot shaft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">HCSO said that the co-worker and others were detained and were being interviewed by homicide detectives.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, July 13, 2026 8:39PM HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; An investigation is underway on Monday following the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[131686,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-371792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-131686","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}