Worker sent to hospital after workplace fall

CITYnews halifax \ By Dan Ahlstrand

A worker was sent to hospital in Halifax Tuesday afternoon with an apparent leg injury after a fall

Around 2 p.m. Tuesday, firefighters and EHS paramedics were called to a building under construction on Quinpool Road after a report that a worker had fallen from a ladder.

HRFE said that the worker was conscious when they arrived, and they attended to the patient before transferring the person to an ambulance for transport to the hospital.

Fire crews were on the scene for about an hour.

No word if the Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration will investigate the incident.