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Tuesday, February 9, 2010   27º F

Updated 11/09/2009 04:10 PM

Elevator Safety Presentation To Be Held Following Brooklyn Death

By: NY1 News

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Buildings Commissioner Robert LiMandri is holding an elevator safety presentation today at P.S. 19 in Brooklyn for first, second and third grade students, on the heels of an incident over the weekend, where a musician fell to his death in a Brooklyn elevator shaft.

Police say Gerard Fuchs, 34, was trying to jump out of a stalled freight elevator inside a building on Berry Street early yesterday, when his jacket got snagged and he slipped through a gap.

He was found unconscious at the bottom of the shaft – about five stories down. He was then taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Fuchs played with the Georgia-based band Maserati and a number of other independent bands.

He had been attending a benefit for The Uniform Project, designed to help children in India.