Officials are investigating after seven people fell from a two-storey residential construction site Friday evening.
Deputy chief Layne Jackson with Regina Fire said crews received a call about a workplace accident at around 5:30 p.m. in the 3300 block of Green Brook Road.
“We deployed our technical rescue team… They were removing a heavy object into the home and they had fallen with it and ended up in the basement,” Jackson said.
“We had to extricate them out.”
According to Jackson, three people were able to make it out of the building on their own, but four were trapped inside and needed help getting out.
“That’s what we were involved with, was extricating them, four of them from the basement,” he said.
According to neighbours in the area, workers were carrying a window when the stairs gave way, and the workers fell to the basement.
“EMS, firefighters, police, everyone was here. There was probably two fire trucks, two, three ambulances,” neighbour Terrel Sikora said.
Occupational Health and Safety has been notified. Sikora said they were on site for hours investigating.
Requests for comment from the builder, Prime Urban Development, have not been returned.
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