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Staff members at the Indiana Veterans Home have taken up a collection for the fiancee and baby girl of a worker who died following an elevator accident.
Randy Reed, 23, was atop an elevator car with two other employees of Louisville, Ky.-based Abell Elevator Co. last Monday when the car moved for unknown reasons from the basement to the first floor.
Reed, of New Albany, lost his balance and fell between the car and the shaft. He died Friday afternoon at St. Elizabeth Medical Center from his injuries.
Abell was renovating the elevator to bring it up to standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act. An employee at Abell’s Indianapolis office said Reed’s accident was the first of its kind for the company.
