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A construction worker has died after an accident on the roof of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture yesterday.

D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services spokesman Tim Wilson confirmed that a worker was critically injured yesterday after he was caught in a scaffolding collapse at the museum’s site, near the intersection of 15th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. When crews arrived to the scene at about 1:15 p.m., the worker was unresponsive.

The Post reports that the worker later died as a result of his injuries. The man was rescued from the roof after the collapse with a construction crane and rushed to a nearby hospital, but he eventually succumbed to his injuries.