WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina — Three workers were killed and a fourth was injured Monday after scaffolding collapsed at a high-rise building under construction in Raleigh, North Carolina, an emergency medical services spokesman said.
The cause of the accident was not immediately known. The injured construction worker was hospitalized with injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening , said Jeffrey Hammerstein, spokesman for Wake County EMS.
Workers were dismantling the scaffolding on the 11-story building’s exterior when the collapse occurred, said Mike Hampton, chief operating officer of Atlanta-based Choate Construction, the project’s general contractor.
“Obviously something went terribly wrong, and we still don’t know what that is,” Hampton said.
The accident was being investigated and the names of the victims had not yet been released.
The building is to be a mixed-use residential, office and retail space in the city’s downtown area.