District of North Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services members pulled an injured worker from a Seymour area construction site on Friday after he fell through a floor.
Crews were called to the Seymour Estates redevelopment on the 900 block of Lytton Street around 12:30 p.m.
“There was approximately a four-foot by four-foot cutout the patient fell through and down to the floor below, which is approximately 10 feet down, and onto another concrete slab,” said assistant chief Mark Dear.
Because of concerns the worker may have received a spinal injury in the fall, crews made the call to stabilize him before carrying out a technical rope rescue to get him out of the hole. Once he was packaged into a stretcher with spinal supports, crews rigged him into a rope system set up from a tripod above, Dear said.
Once out, the man was transported to hospital by BC Ambulance Service paramedics.
WorkSafeBC will now be tasked with investigating the incident.
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