Menards employee dies after falling from elevated platform machine onto concrete floor

ORANGE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WILX/Gray News) – A Menards employee in Michigan died Tuesday after falling about 20 feet while working on an elevated platform machine.

According to police, an accidental fall was reported at 8:42 p.m. at a Menards home improvement store in Orange Township.

Investigators said the store employee, a 26-year-old man, was working on an elevated platform machine when he accidentally fell about 20 feet onto the concrete floor.

Firefighters and paramedics at the scene transported him to Sparrow Ionia Hospital, where he later died.

An early investigation by the Ionia County Sheriff’s Office showed that safety equipment was working but was likely not used appropriately. However, further investigation of the industrial accident is being turned over to MIOSHA and the Ionia County Medical Examiner’s Office.