A worker from Illinois lost his life at Prime Hook Beach Saturday, according to Sussex County EMS and Delaware State Police.
At 1:49 p.m., Delaware State Police’s Troop 4 Criminal Investigations Unit was dispatched to a residential construction project on the 29000 block of Pine St. in the small, unincorporated community of Prime Hook Beach, about a block from the ocean.
When troopers arrived at the scene, preliminary findings indicated what state troopers believe to be an industrial accident. A 30-year-old man had died while performing pile-driving work at the housing construction site, according to Delaware State Police spokesperson India Sturgis. He was from McHenry, Illinois…