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Company to resume search for missing employee in power plant collapse Drone video shows the collapse at Killen Generating Station in Adams County By Kim Schupp | December 23, 2020 at 2:32 PM EST - Updated December 23 at 3:02 PM
ADAMS COUNTY, Ohio (FOX19) - The Adamo Group said the U.S Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is permitting them to resume work in the recovery efforts of a missing employee at the Killen Generating Station demolition site.
Adamo Demolition Co. of Detroit, Michigan, was tearing down the former coal-fire plant on U.S. 52 near Manchester when it collapsed on Wednesday, Dec. 9.
Three workers were rescued and hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries the same day.
New plan developed for recovering final worker in power plant collapse
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MANCHESTER, Ohio â A new engineering plan has been developed for the continuing search for the remaining missing worker trapped beneath the rubble of the collapsed Killen Generating Station in Adams County.
On Monday, the Adamo Group, for whom missing Jamie Fitzgerald and four others who were trapped in the collapse worked, announced they expected it could take a month before they re able to reach the area they believe Fitzgerald s body may be. The company said a new engineering plan was necessary to continue to search.
CATLETTSBURG A charity event was held Friday at the Catlettsburg Ballpark to support the families of Adamo Demolition Group workers Jamie Fitzgerald, Doug Gray and Travis Miller. The three men were part of the project to demolish the former Killen Generating Station in Adams County,Ohio, and were inside when the building collapsed on Dec 9. Gray and Fitzgerald were killed by the collapse while Miller survived with injuries and is receiving medical treatment.
The event was organized by Fitzgeraldâs friends and coworkers to sell barbecue dinners and raffle tickets for a giveaway with all proceeds being donated to the families of the three workers.
Family of man missing in Adams Co. collapse seeking help from state officials
Recovery of the last missing worker is expected to last until mid-to-late January.
Family of man missing in Adams Co. collapse desperate for answers By Jessica Schmidt | December 21, 2020 at 9:40 PM EST - Updated December 21 at 10:40 PM
ADAMS COUNTY, Ohio (FOX19) - Nearly two weeks after a former generating station collapsed in Adams County, one of the demolition workers is still missing. Now his loved ones are reaching out to state and local officials to ask for help.
Jamie Fitzgerald was one of the Adamo Group workers tearing down a former coal fire plant in Adams County when it collapsed on Dec. 9.