Concrete slab pins worker during Continental Inn demolition
A man working on the demolition of the Continental Inn was injured Tuesday afternoon when a concrete slab from the ceiling fell on him.
“He has (a) very, very serious injury to his foot,” said Maj. Greg Stapleton of the Lexington, KY Fire Department.
Firefighters spent an hour working to free the man, who was pinned beneath a slab of concrete that was 3 to 5 inches thick and measured 6 by 15 feet across, Stapleton said. He said he did not know the man’s identity.
State Democratic Party Chairman Jerry Lundergan is part of the group that owns the property. In an interview this year, he declined to name the other investors, who bought it for more than $3.5 million through a Lexington-based company called Glenncase LLC.
Lundergan has not returned several phone calls seeking information about the demolition. A woman at the scene of the accident said she was an investor, but she would not give her name and she said she had no comment.
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