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- Tennessee officials are investigating why a wall collapsed onto three men, killing two of them, during construction of a Goodwill Industries building.
- Authorities said the general contractor, Solomon Builders, Inc., of Nashville, had been cited by the state Occupational Safety and Health agency five times between 2005 and the April 18 collapse, and N&S Waterproofing LLC of Nashville, which employed one of the dead men, had two run-ins with state regulators.
- The other man who died and the man who was hurt worked for Thorne’s Excavating Co. of Lebanon.
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