Jose Pereira, 43, of Philadelphia – who worked for Ferguson Constructing Inc. in Pennsylvania – was pronounced dead around 10pm on Friday.
He was working on the exterior of the Spinnaker Condominium Complex at 2.30pm when the 8th-floor balcony collapsed onto the 7th-floor, pining him.
The construction worker was pinned underneath a collapsed eighth-floor balcony weighing 11,000 pounds.
He was trapped under the five-ton concrete slab for seven hours.
The 43-year-old was pronounced dead around 10pm on Friday by a Cape May forensic nurse after he was pinned down at 2.30pm.
Witness Joye Fiocchi told CBS News: ‘Just total chaos. Just people screaming. I called 911 right away.
‘And it’s just 20 minutes later, I heard him screaming again. I guess he was saying get it off of me, and I never heard anything [after].’
Eric Hupperich was on break when he felt the collapse ‘through our bodies.’ He said: ‘It was a really, really loud boom.’
Police had attemped to rescue Pereira but were unable to reach him due to ‘significant cracks’ and the building was considered ‘unsafe’.
Rescue teams got to Pereira after bringing in more equipment to stabilise the seventh-floor balcony.
They had to cut through 12 inches of reinforced concrete.
Two other contractors sustain minor injuries, according to CBS News.
Private engineers will conduct inspections on the building and residents are not allowed back until it is completed.
