But I've never covered the unexpected death of a middle-aged construction worker in a public hospital.
On a long train ride to Estonia, they befriended a middle-aged construction executive and his wife, a doctor, who were from southern Russia.
Judge Thomas Snow watched the middle-aged construction worker on a big-screen television in Arlington, Va., 170 miles away from the immigration jail where Chirino was being held.
One of them, a middle-aged construction worker named Adib Sulayman, pulled out his cellphone and showed me the message he received after his son Yamin was kidnapped by rebels: "We have executed God's will and killed your son.
Fred Lancaster, a white, middle-aged construction foreman who works on gas stations in the San Joaquin Valley area, remembers a time when he didn't have to worry about gang violence erupting on the street.
As the Manhattan peace protesters made their way through the steel and concrete canyons to Federal Hall, 200 white, middle-aged, construction workers in hard hats and carrying American flags barred their way and chased the young hippies through the streets beating them with lead pipes and crowbars.
As such, the Yellow Ribbon Project followed the example set by its Asian namesakewith programs to help female ex-offenders from WA's Bandyup women's prison and Banksia Hill detention centre find, integrate, and keep jobs mainly in aged care, construction and community services.
This middle-aged black construction worker was stopped in Ferguson, Missouri, and mistakenly arrested on a warrant for a man with a different middle name and different Social Security number.
This middle-aged African-American construction worker saw a young man fall off the platform on a subway station, his body spread across the tracks.
Officials in the Senate historian's office said that a staff member in an out-of-the-way office and workers for the Architect of the Capitol, the agency supervising the construction, noticed the aged volume and 59 other ledgers dating from the 1800's to the 1950's and called Congressional curators, who rescued the books.
The nation wouldn't function without aged-care workers, electricians and construction workers.
