Freak occurrence, a ricochet. Given where the truck is, you can see the lines for a swing stage scaffold way up above and the material or personnel hoist is also nearby. I'll bet it came off someone on the swing stage scaffold.
One of the rules of high rise construction to remember is about people working above you, and the building perimeter. You can see in the photos, a point of ingress/egress, there is sidewalk bridging with what should be planking on top, so you have some protection from above.
Its hard to believe, but I've had jumbo brick thrown off upper floors intentionally at an ironworker crew rigging very large and expensive 4000lb windows 5 feet wide, 25 feet high. A bricklayer, on a scaffold tried bouncing them off the temp power shack roof, onto our windows to break the glass. The job was high stress, ironically, given I was signaling the crane, supervising the rigging, I did not attend the weekly contractor meeting that was in progress while this was happening. I decided to briefly attend, collecting one jumbo brick, interrupting the meeting by slamming it on the table, told the GC we cannot work, and you'll be back charged the value of a 14 man crew, and the cost of the crane with an operator and oiler for one day. I then rounded up the crew and went to the floor the bricklayers were on to explain to their foreman we are stopped and you'll be getting the bill from the GC, in addition to making a point with those on the scaffold. That was the end of that problem, to this day I still cannot believe what I saw, a man throwing bricks at the roof of that shack to bounce em over to hit the glass.
I've seen all kinds of things intentionally tossed out of high rises, not always an accident, people do it intentionally, plastic bottles with yellow liquid, 5 gallon pails full of material etc. Then you have a guy drop a load of brick right while you are walking out, always one in the crowd, happened right after they were reprimanded for not wearing their hardhats. My father has a white ceramic or dense polished stone egg, had some weight to it and was not damaged. It was intentionally tossed off the roof of a 30 story building in a huge co-op development, called co-op city in nyc, no hardhat would save you from that thing.
Ones thoughts go out to the family and friend of the deceased, a freak and tragic event.
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