An accident at the construction site for the Minnesota Vikings new stadium has reportedly left one worker dead and another injured, according to Paul Walsh and Rochelle Olsen of the Minnesota Star Tribune.
Emergency personnel "stabilized one victim on the roof," while another was earlier "loaded into an ambulance for transport," per the report.
UPDATE, 12:00 PM: Mortensen senior Vice President John Wood has announced that one of the workers died, per the Associated Press. The two workers, employees of Berwald Roofing, were working on the north side of the partially constructed stadium on Wednesday morning. Both workers were taken to the hospital where one died of his injuries and the other remains in critical condition.
Both workers were hospitalized at Hennepin County Medical Center after a rescue effort by Fire Department personnel to retrieve one of the works from a crevice of the roof. Fire Department crew members used a rescue basket, ropes and cables to retrieve the person from the roof.
As construction workers filed out of the site, several indicated that one of their colleagues had died, according to the Tribune.
The workers fell at about 7:45 a.m. "while performing roofing work on the north side of the building," Mortensen senior Vice President John Wood said, via the report. He would not provide a further update or confirm that one of the workers had died, but said that construction has halted for the day.
HNGN will keep you updated as more information becomes available.
