Three workers have been injured after a section of a highrise building under construction in Woodbridge partially collapsed. 7, near Wigwoss Drive, just after 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Firefighters arrived on scene to find three construction workers with non-life threatening injuries caused by a collapse of a 10-metre section of the building’s eighth floor. “What has happened, it appears, is that the struts have dropped,” Vaughan Deputy Fire Chief Deryn Rizzi said. Two of them were on the scaffolding; one of them was running up the stairs to assist when he saw it happening.”Workers have been evacuated from the building and York Regional Police has shut down operations at the site, she added.

Source: thestar June 07, 2017 22:52 UTC