OSHA investigates fatal fall from bridge

Officials of the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration are investigating the death of a 29-year-old man who fell while working on the Deer Isle-Sedgwick bridge in eastern Maine. The Hancock County Sheriff’s Department said Ercio Gasques suffered massive head injuries when he fell about 40 feet Sunday afternoon. He died en route to the hospital. Sheriff’s officials said Gasques was from New Jersey and was part of a painting crew working for a Pennsylvania contractor that has been working on the suspension bridge.