3 injured when retaining wall collapses at construction site
GREENSBORO – Three workers were transported to the hospital after a retaining wall collapsed Wednesday afternoon at an apartment complex under construction.
Emergency officials were called to Spring Place apartments at 3612 Hewitt St. about 4:15 p.m. to reports of the wall collapse.
Capt. Jim Boggs of the Greensboro Fire Department said part of a 6-foot concrete retaining wall being built near the complex collapsed, and three workers received unspecified, yet minor, injuries.
The workers were transported to Moses Cone Hospital, Boggs said. He said at no point where the workers ever trapped under the collapsed wall. The cause of the collapse was not immediately known.
The name of the company that employed the workers was not immediately available.
The Greensboro Police Department’s crime scene investigation unit responded and photographed the area.
Boggs said the incident will be investigated by the N.C. Department of Labor, which is standard with all major workplace-related injuries.
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