An Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigation into what caused roof trusses at the Bow Public Safety facility construction site to fall on two workers may take months, officials said.
OSHA spokesman Jim Lally said the investigation into the Monday incident was still ongoing and may take up to six months to complete. Bow Select Board Chairman Harry Judd said the town hopes OSHA will have finished inspecting the trusses by today so that the debris can be removed and full construction can continue.
Emergency personnel responded to the site on Knox Road about 10 a.m. on Monday to reports that a roof truss had fallen onto two workers. The individuals were transported to Concord Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Judd said the individuals were released from the hospital as of Tuesday.
Both Judd and Lally did not release the names of those injured. Lally said OSHA does not typically comment on an active investigation or release the names of those injured, but said the two individuals were from Ben Jackson & Sons, which is based out of Dunbarton. A working number for the company could not be found, and a call to Gary Chicoine Construction Company, which was hired to oversee the construction, was not returned on Tuesday.
Judd said construction on other parts of the building has not been delayed by the incident. The $4.3 million project began this past summer and is expected to be completed by early 2017. Judd said the town hopes to have the exterior of the building completed by winter.
(Caitlin Andrews can be reached at 369-3309, candrews@cmonitor.com or on Twitter at @ActualCAndrews.)