Police said Mistarka fell through the roof at Matuszko Trailer Repair.
SUNDERLAND - A 54-year-old Hatfield man died Monday after falling through the roof of an Amherst Road business that he and a crew had been repairing.
Ronald Mistarka, of 122 West St., fell through the roof at Matuszko Trailer Repair, of 712 Amherst Road, at about 10 a.m. Monday, Police Chief Jeffrey Gilbert said.
“He fell through the roof and down into the shop, onto the cement floor,” Gilbert said. Mistarka was pronounced dead at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton.
Gilbert said the roof at the trailer repair shop had been damaged by fire last February.
Mistarka was the owner of Mistarka Home Improvement. Police and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration continues to probe the accident.