Construction Worker Injured at MLS Stadium When Drywall Topples
Date Posted: January 13, 2022
Posted In: News, Workforce,
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: A construction worker was rushed to a hospital Thursday morning when a stack of drywall toppled onto him at the MLS stadium, St. Louis fire Chief Dennis Jenkerson said.
The accident happened about 6:40 a.m. at the St. Louis City SC stadium, near North 20th and Market streets.
Jenkerson said the worker suffered injuries mostly to his legs.
“He might have some broken bones,” Jenkerson said. “Drywall is heavy stuff.”
The victim was transferred by paramedics, and Jenkerson said he thinks the man was critical although he did not have an update on the man’s condition.
Rescue crews taking the man to the hospital told fire officials that construction workers had been using a forklift to move drywall, and the load shifted.
“That’s when the drywall temporarily pinned the construction worker,” Fire Capt. Garon Mosby said. “The coworkers freed him before we got there.”
The victim was conscious and alert as he was taken by ambulance to a hospital, Mosby said.
Mosby said there have been one or two other calls for paramedics for incidents during construction at the stadium, “but it’s been relatively safe for that magnitude of a project.”