Crime & Safety
Collapse at Issaquah Highlands Construction Site Sends 4 to Hospital
Eastside Fire & Rescue is on the scene of an accident in which a wall collapsed on workers who were trying to raise it, injuring four, one of those seriously. Labor and Industries is investigating.
Eastside Fire & Rescue was dispatched to an Issaquah Highlands home building site Friday afternoon after a wooden wall they were raising flipped and landed on four workers, seriously injuring one.
EFR Station #71 Battalion Chief Glenn Huffman said all four of the construction workers were transported to area hospitals, and Labor & Industries is investigating the accident.
The site of the accident was on NE 3rd Court near Swedish Issaquah and on the edge of the bluff above Cadman Issaquah.
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The names of those injured were not available at this time.
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