Amateur video captures moment machine plummets through building.
A bystander has captured the dramatic moment that an excavator fell through an upper floor of a building in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The excavator was working on the second floor of the building when it crashed through to the ground level.
“All of a sudden, boom! The excavator just went right down,” said eyewitness Ross Stillwell.
The building that used to house a mattress store on Spring Garden Road, opposite the Halifax Central Library, is the site of the demolition. (Submitted by Geoff D’Eon)
Halifax Fire initially said there was no one in the excavator, however the provincial labour department says someone was inside but wasn’t injured.
Halifax Fire did say that they believed a man at the construction site was hit by debris but was not injured.
Read more here, or view the dramatic video below:
