A construction worker suffered a minor head injury and five others escaped harm after a scaffolding collapse Friday morning in the North Loop neighborhood of downtown Minneapolis.
The collapse occurred at about 10 a.m. where the six workers were working on the scaffolding at 2nd and Washington avenues N., according to Assistant Fire Chief Brian Tyner. The scaffolding fell away from the three- to four-story building, Tyner said.
"The whole thing just fell over to the side. It was not like a pancake. It was a lean-to," he said. "It just sort of leaned over to the side and fell over." Tyner said he wasn't sure what project they were working on.
One person was taken to the hospital for evaluation of the head injury, Tyner said, adding that "everybody else came out unscathed." "There were people who saw it and called it in," Tyner said. "Luckily there was a vacant lot next to the building and it just fell into the vacant lot."
