Crews kept working on Baylor bridge while worker drowned, attorney says

Waco, Texas -- Work crews made no attempt to rescue two construction workers who rolled from a barge into the Brazos River while tethered to a lift, and they continued to work while Jose Dario Suarez’s body lay on the muddy river bottom, an attorney for Suarez’s family alleges in a recent motion.

Vuk Vujasinovic, a Houston attorney representing Suarez’s wife, two daughters, son and mother in a wrongful death lawsuit, also claims in the motion that construction company officials may have altered the accident scene after Suarez’s death.

Suarez, 55, of Manor, drowned Jan. 28, 2014, after a hydraulic lift he and Terry Watson were strapped to rolled from a modular barge into the Brazos River as the men worked on the pedestrian bridge linking the Baylor University campus to the new McLane Stadium.

Not only did no one try to rescue the men, but crews continued working because the $266 million project was four months behind schedule and time was of the essence, Vujasinovic alleges in his motion.

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