A 50-year-old man is dead after officials say he fell from the roof of a house he owned while he and others were working on the home near Spring Grove Monday afternoon.
The Lake County Sheriff’s Office and Fox Lake Fire Protection District responded around 4 p.m. Monday to the 27600 block of West Lakeshore Drive in unincorporated Spring Grove for a report of a fall victim.
Sheriff’s deputies arrived and found paramedics already on the scene performing lifesaving measures, according to Lake County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Chief Christopher Covelli.
The victim, a 50-year-old man, was unconscious and not breathing.
Lake County Chief Deputy Coroner Steve Newton said the man had fallen from the roof of a home he was working on.
Other workers witnessed the fall, rendered aid and called 911, Newton said.
A preliminary investigation showed the victim was working on the roof of a home he owned without safety equipment, Covelli said.
He slipped and slid down the roof, falling from the peak of the second story of the home.
Covelli said the victim struck a fence before ultimately striking the ground, suffering fatal injuries.
“Tragically, the man was subsequently pronounced deceased at the scene,” Covelli said.
The Lake County Coroner’s Office responded to the scene to take possession of the man for an autopsy.
Sheriff’s detectives responded and determined the fall was an “unfortunate accident” and not suspicious in nature, Covelli added.
An autopsy was performed on Tuesday by the coroner’s office, which has not yet released the identity of the Niles man.