CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Three construction workers are dead after falling about 70 feet when scaffolding collapsed at a construction site near Uptown Charlotte and Dilworth on Monday morning, MEDIC and Charlotte Fire said.
Charlotte Fire said on social media just after 9 a.m. local time that it was responding to an “industrial accident” at a construction site in the 700 block of East Morehead Street, at Euclid Avenue. CFD said in a later statement the accident was “a scaffolding collapse.”
MEDIC has confirmed there were three fatalities, and CFD Captain Jackie Gilmore said at a news conference all three died at the scene.
