People living near a high-rise construction site in downtown Vancouver are concerned about falling debris.
This morning, a huge piece of glass fell from the ‘Mark’ tower at Pacific and Seymour and landed on a car.
Area resident Amanda Bates fears it’s only a matter of time before someone’s hurt or killed.
“It’s a window, you can see from the frame on the pictures — the window frame has just fallen onto this car. We’ve had metal studs landing in our sandy volleyball court in the building, we have garbage coming down all the time. There was also a nail that came down at one point and did actually hit somebody in the courtyard the other day — luckily, they weren’t badly hurt.”
She says security guards in her building are telling residents not to let their kids play in the courtyard next to the construction site.
“Just in case this kind of thing happens again. We are on the lookout for things like this.”
Onni Group is the developer of the tower.
CKNW has called them and we’re waiting for a response.
Worksafe BC’s Donna Freeman says they’re investigating this morning’s incident.
“It appears, based on the information we have so far, is that two workers were putting into place, positioning a large piece of glass at the 36th floor, I believe. Something happened with the suction cup — again this is preliminary information — but in any event, the glass did fall about 36 stories. This is a 200 pound piece of glass and it’s approximately 4-by-8 in diameter.”
No injuries reported.
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