Firefighters rescued an injured worker who fell through scaffolding and landed on concrete at a construction site in Ottawa’s west end. The Ottawa Fire Services were called to a residential construction site near the intersection of Linseed Road and Alembic Crescent near March Road shortly before 8:20 a.m. Tuesday. Firefighters found the worker inside the basement of the home being built at the site. Due to his injuries, the worker could not get out of the area himself. A rope rescue team was called to assist in bringing him out of the site. “One of our aerial ladders was set up to provide a high anchor point for the rope rescue,” the Ottawa Fire Services said in a post on X. “Firefighters carefully secured the worker in a stokes basket, which was attached to the system, before lifting them out of the basement and lowering them to a safe location.” The worker was transferred to the care of Ottawa paramedics. Ottawa paramedics spokesperson Marc-Antoine Deschamps says the worker, an adult man, was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. He remains in hospital in stable condition.
