Houston building partially collapses killing three
A fourth individual reported injured and taken to a nearby hospital
A partial building collapse at a high-rise in Houston killed at least three people on Monday, fire officials said . Another individual was taken to a hospital and is in a stable condition.
All 240 construction workers on the 15-storey building have been accounted for, KHOU reports.
A Houston Fire Department Technical Rescue Team was responding to the incident at the site, a building under construction near the I-10 Katy Freeway.
“I was on the 11th floor," an HVAC worker on the building told KPRC. “They’d just called us. They’d told us to come done and unload some materials. I went down. As soon as I got down and started unloading materials, out of nowhere I heard a loud banging sound, and it sounded like the building was collapsing.”
The building is slated to be the future headquarters of Marathon Oil in 2021, and is part of a construction project announced earlier this year.
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