CATSKILL — Three construction workers were taken to Albany Medical Center on Thursday morning after a scaffold collapsed in Catskill, according to Lt. Ronald Frascello of the Catskill Police Department.
The three, two men and a woman, are employees of Belfor Property Restoration of Queens, a company that is rebuilding a condominium at Catskill Creek Condominiums on Marina Drive, Catskill police said. The condo was destroyed by fire last Christmas eve.
Two men, whose ages were given as 50 and 34, were working on scaffolding to install sheathing on the second floor when the sheathing broke loose and fell, knocking the scaffolding out from under the men, causing them to fall two stories to the ground, Frascello said.
The 34-year-old was pinned between the scaffolding and the building and had to be freed by Catskill firefighters, Catskill police said.
A third worker, a 44-year-old woman, who was standing on the ground, was hit by the scaffolding when it fell, Catskill police said.
The three workers were transported to Albany by ambulances from Catskill and Coxsackie with non-life threatening injuries, Frascello said. After emergency personnel cleared the scene, construction resumed on the building.
The condominium being rebuilt was destroyed by fire on Christmas eve 2019. The couple, who had just moved in, lost two dogs and several birds in the fire.