2 Workers Fall From Harvard Construction Site: Boston Fire Rescue

BOSTON, MA — Two construction workers were taken to the hospital after Boston Fire helped rescue two at a Harvard School construction site on Western Avenue this afternoon where they fell some 20 feet, according to Boston Fire Department officials.

Around 2:15 p.m. Boston firefighters were called to 140 Western Avenue with a construction accident. Ladder 14 requested a technical rescue response for two people who had fallen.

"[Two] construction workers reportedly fell approx. 18 feet.," said fire officials who said that Pro Cambridge EMS took the workers to a hospital to be treated for non-life threatening injuries. The two were working on the fifth floor when some scaffolding gave out said fire officials in a press conference.

A WBZ news helicopter appeared to show the rescue.

Turner Construction was working the site where Harvard had commissioned the building of a Science and Engineering Complex across from Harvard Business School and the i-lab, Life Lab, and Launch Lab. The Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences was slated to be the main department to fill the Science and Engineering Complex. Some of the operations of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard that are currently based in Cambridge will also be part of the SEC, according to Harvard's website.

Construction began in 2016 and the building will open in time for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Fire and police officials said they let OSHA know about the technical rescue incident, although OSHA was not on scene.

Photos courtesy Boston Fire Department