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Homicide detectives investigating fatal fall at downtown Seattle business

Jul 31, 2016, 11:58 AM | Updated: 1:24 pm

Police say a man fell to his death in downtown Seattle Sunday morning. (KIRO 7)...

Police say a man fell to his death in downtown Seattle Sunday morning. (KIRO 7)

(KIRO 7)

Homicide detectives are investigating after a man fell to his death in downtown Seattle Sunday morning.

Police received a report just after 8 a.m. that an employee died at a business in the 1500 block of 5th Avenue.

Officers arrived and found that a man in his 40s had died from a fall. Detectives are working to determine the circumstances surrounding the death. Both Washington State Department of Labor and Industries and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration will be investigating.

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