    ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, ON NOVEMBER 11, 1996, ABT. 10:00A.M., THE DECEASED WAS AT THE ABOVE INCIDENT LOCATION WHICH IS A CONSTRUCTION SITE.  HE WAS ON A 10 FT. SCALFOLD WHEN HE FELL.  FIRE RESCUE WAS CALLED AND UPON THEIR ARRIVAL, HE WAS FOUND WITH ALTERED MENTAL STATUS AND COMPLAINING OF A HEADACHE AND NECK PAIN.  HIS GCS RANGED FROM 14 TO 12.  EMERGENCY TREATMENT WAS ADMINISTERED AND HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM.  
    UPON ARRIVAL AT THE EMERGENCY ROOM, HE WAS RESPONSIVE, BUT WITH ALTERED MENTAL STATUS, HIS B/P WAS 160/90, HEART RATE 20, RESPIRATION 20 AND A GCS OF 14.  EXTERNAL EXAMINATION OF HIS HEAD REVEALED NO LACERATIONS AND NO HEMATOMAS.  HIS PUPILS WERE 4MM TO 3MM AND EQUAL.  HIS EARS WERE WITHOUT HEMORRHAGE, LEFT EAR HEMATOMA AND FACIAL BONES STABLE.  HE WAS TAKEN TO X-RAY WHERE A CT SCAN OF THE BRAIN WAS PERFORMED AND REVEALED RIGHT TEMPORAL LOBE CONTUSION, GRADE 3 TENTORIUM AND POSTERIOR INTERHEMISPHERIC FISSURE AND DIFFUSE SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE.  CT SCAN OF THE CERVICAL SPINE REVEALED C 7 ARTICULAR FACET FRACTURE EXTENDING TO LAMINA.  CHEST X-RAY REVEALED LEFT 7TH RIB FRACTURE.  TREATMENT WAS ADMINISTERED, HOWEVER, HIS CONDITION DETERIORATED.  HE BECAME UNRESPONSIVE, DEVELOPED RENAL FAILURE AND WAS WITHOUT NEUROLOGICAL IMPROVEMENT.  ON NOVEMBER 26, 1996, HE WENT INTO CARDIAC ARREST AND DESPITE RESUSCITAION MEASURES, AT 1:35P.M., HE EXPIRED.  