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Worker dies in fall from roof of Lombard home

A 30-year-old Elmwood Park man died after a fall from the roof of a Lombard home Thursday morning.

Police and fire officials responded to a home in the 300 block of North Fairfield just before 9 a.m. on March 13.

According to Lombard fire Battalion Chief Mike Kalina, paramedics found a man unconscious on a concrete surface. Kalina said the man apparently fell off the roof, 12 to 14 feet, to a concrete patio. “He was critical,” Kalina said, adding that Lombard Fire Department paramedics transported the man to Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove for a severe head injury.

Lombard police Deputy Chief Dane Cuny said Mariusz Lemanski, a contractor, was pronounced dead at the hospital. Lombard detectives responded to the accident scene to conduct an investigation.

“Preliminary indications [show] it was a work-related accident,” Cuny said, adding that an autopsy and further forensics investigation is being conducted by the DuPage County Coroner’s Office.