Menlo Park firefighters use their aerial ladder truck to lower an injured steel worker from the third floor of Facebook’s new Building 21 after he was injured in a 15-foot fall from the fourth floor/roof of the building which is under construction.
A steel worker was injured Tuesday morning after falling at the construction site of a new Facebook building in Menlo Park, fire officials said.
According to Menlo Park Fire Protection District officials, at 8:35 a.m. firefighters responded to a report of an injured worker at Facebook’s new building 21, which is under construction.
The worker was on a steel frame on the fourth floor when a piece of decking or steel he stepped on partially dislodged and he fell 10 to 15 feet. His safety harness and rigging stopped his descent before he made contact with the third floor, fire officials said.
Fellow steel workers quickly assisted the victim by unclipping him from his safety rigging, and put him on the floor. The victim suffered significant pain, bruising and abrasions, fire officials said.
Paramedics and fire crews arrived and lowered the man down from the third floor. He was taken to Stanford Hospital.
Cal/OSHA officials will investigate this accident, fire officials said.
This is the second time this year that a worker has been injured at this construction site. On April 26, two iron workers at the building were about 40 feet above the ground when the steel beam they were standing on and attached to suddenly dropped 20 feet.
Both workers, who were wearing safety harnesses that stopped their descent, suffered puncture wounds and significant pain to their lower extremities, fire officials said.
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