Worker seriously hurt after elevator shaft fall.
A 20-year-old demolition worker was critically injured Thursday in a 15-foot fall in an elevator shaft in a downtown Omaha building.
The unidentified worker for Peitzmeier Demolition & Concrete Cutting Inc. was working on the main floor of the building on the southwest corner of 14th and Harney Streets about 11:45 a.m. when he stepped back and fell to the bottom of the elevator shaft, according to another Peitzmeier worker.
The injured man was taken in critical condition to Creighton University Medical Center after suffering injuries to his ribs and left hip in the fall at 1405 Harney Street, according to the fellow worker.
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