Several workers were injured after a concrete slab fell on to them at a construction zone near UCF.
The Seminole County Fire Department said the incident happened near Lockwood Boulevard and Foxcroft Circle.
“UCF does not own the property, and we do not oversee the NorthView construction site. However, we have offered our assistance,’ Chad Binette said, Director, UCF News & Information. “Our thoughts are with those who were injured, and we hope they experience a complete recovery.”
The site, which is planned to be a future facility of the Hillel Jewish Organization, calls for 600 beds of student housing that are expected to open in the fall of 2013. UCF is slated to provide housing management and marketing services for the project.
Four people were apparently taken to the hospital, two of them with serious head and neck injuries.
A medical helicopter was requested on scene to transport the injured workers.
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