COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Four workers were hurt, three critically, after a barn frame collapsed Saturday at an $80 million Texas A&M University equestrian complex that's under construction.
The collapse happened on university property about a mile from the main campus, Texas A&M spokesman Lane Stephenson said.
College Station and Bryan fire departments, campus police and Texas A&M emergency medical personnel all responded to the accident, which happened shortly before 11 a.m. Saturday.
The accident involved an approximately 300-foot barn, according to the College Station Fire Department. Twisted metal beams could be seen at the site, where ground was broken last fall.
The injured workers were transported to hospitals. Their names and further details on their conditions were not immediately released. Nobody else was hurt.
For a time, emergency responders had to halt the search for the four because of concerns about another collapse.
"After that time search and rescue efforts were suspended until the remainder of the structure that was still standing could be stabilized," according to a statement from the College Station Fire Department. "After the structure was secured a secondary search of the area was conducted to ensure that all patients had been located."
Texas A&M police officials were trying to determine what caused the collapse. University police identified the contractor as Gamma Construction Company, with offices in Houston and San Antonio.
