Stephen Rex Brown Shots from the scene of the accident and photos of the demolition taken from an adjacent rooftop.
One construction worker suffered a leg injury after an accident on the third floor of the Mars Bar building at around 1:45 p.m.
A battalion chief with the Fire Department, Bob Sputch, said that the worker was removing a piece of ceiling when a beam collapsed, possibly breaking the worker’s leg. Several witnesses at the corner of Second Avenue and First Street said that the injury did not appear to be serious.
“If you’d heard the bang, you would have thought it was something serious. But I think he’s alright,” said Malik Johnson, a construction worker at the site. Read more…
