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Date: 
Monday, November 3, 2014
Area: 
Trenton-NJ
A freak accident at a construction site on Monday killed a Camden County, New Jersey, man after he was struck by a tape measure that fell 50 stories from a high-rise under construction in Jersey City, N.J. Gary Anderson, 58, of Somerdale, New Jersey, was delivering drywall to the downtown construction site about 8:40 a.m. when the tape measure fell off the belt of a worker on the top of the building.  Anderson was not wearing a hard hat but had one inside his truck. He had stopped to lean into the open window of a vehicle to speak to someone when he was struck by the tape measure.