A Findorff construction worker has been hospitalized after falling 30 feet from a building at a Madison construction site, the second time a worker has fallen while working at one of the company’s construction sites this year.
The accident happened around 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, May 13, at the future site of the Hub Madison Bassett apartment complex, 449 W. Johnson St., the Madison Fire Department said in a news release.
Workers were moving and adjusting scaffolding alongside the building when the scaffolding, and the telehandler beneath it, tipped over. A worker on the scaffolding at the time clung to the side of the building after the scaffolding collapsed but eventually lost his grip and fell to the ground, the fire department said.
He suffered non-life threatening injuries and was taken to a local emergency room. No additional injuries were reported.
“The health and safety of everyone on our job sites is our highest priority, and we are working closely with local authorities and safety officials to determine the cause of the incident,” said Christin Mlsna, Findorff’s vice president of marketing and communications, in a statement.
The incident marks at least the second worker accident at a Findorff construction site in Madison since the beginning of the year. In January, a Findorff worker fell 50 feet at the site of the future Wisconsin History Center on Madison’s Capitol Square.
That worker, identified by family and fellow Ironworkers Local 383 members as Dakota Chamblee, survived the fall but broke several bones.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration confirmed the agency had opened an investigation into the May 13 incident. OSHA has six months to complete the investigation. The agency will not provide any additional information about the accident until that investigation is complete, the spokesperson said.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Worker injured after falling 30 feet at Madison construction site
Reporting by Steven Martinez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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