A construction worker crushed to death in a tunnel by almost a tonne of falling concrete had been working in the UK to pay for his daughter to go to university, an inquest has heard.
Rene Tkacik, 44, was working on a Crossrail site in central London on March 7 last year when the wet concrete - the equivalent of a bag of building sand - collapsed onto him, St Pancras Coroner's Court was told.
He lay unconscious for 15 minutes before medical staff arrived.
A report by the medical attendant who attended the scene stated Mr Tkacik of Hackney Road, east London, died from "blunt force trauma to the head and chest".
Investigators told the inquest the area being sprayed with concrete had not been cordoned off at the time of the accident.
A statement read to the jury from Mr Tkacik's wife, Renata, said he was a very experienced construction worker, whose main priority was his family.
He sent money home to Slovakia to pay for the education of his daughter, Esther.
Mrs Tkacik said: "He never went out with friends in the evening, he would just talk to me - he came here to raise funds to provide a university education for our daughter.
"He had worked as a concrete sprayer and was hugely experienced with that."
She had travelled with his mother and three sisters from Slovakia to attend the inquest.
The jury was shown a digital reconstruction of the 80ft (24m) deep tunnel in Fisher Street, Holborn, where Mr Tkacic died.
Investigating officer Cavin McGrath said: "The tunnel was being widened from the top.
"About a metre of concrete spraying would take place and the collapse was right underneath where it had just been sprayed.
"It was just under a tonne of concrete that came down, which is the equivalent of a bag of building sand."
The inquest heard that when the concrete fell on Mr Tkacik, the area was still being sprayed, and work had only halted so the machine could be refilled.
Asked whether there were any rope or chains cordoning off the area at the time of the tragedy, Mr McGrath: "There was not."
He also confirmed no one was facing prosecution over the fatality.
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