Worker injured at new building under construction near Vaughan subway

Firefighters use crane to rescue worker who appeared to have sustained a leg injury after falling when stabilization collapsed

Yorkregion.com
Dec. 20, 2017
By Adam Martin-Robbins

Vaughan firefighters performed a dramatic rescue using a crane after a worker reportedly fell and was injured while working on the fourth floor of a building under construction near the newly opened Vaughan subway station in the city's emerging downtown.

A construction crew was pouring concrete on the fourth floor of a new building going up in the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre, in the Jane Street and Hwy. 7 area, when the stabilization collapsed, causing a worker to fall and sustain a leg injury Dec. 20, Vaughan Fire platoon chief Dave Warren said.

Firefighters were called to the scene just before 1:30 p.m.

They used a crane at the site and a rescue basket to get the worker lifted off the building, lowered to the ground and loaded into an ambulance, Warren said. The entire rescue operation took just more than 25 minutes.

The worker was taken to hospital and Ministry of Labour officials are at the site investigating.