Worker Falls At Chevy Chase Home Construction Site

Montgomery County Fire and Rescue battalion chief vehicle (file photo)A worker was rushed to a local trauma center this morning with minor injuries after falling more than 10 feet at a Chevy Chase home that’s under construction.

Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services spokesperson Beth Anne Nesselt said a medical unit received a call at about 9:31 a.m. for an accident at a house in the 5500 block of Uppingham Street, near the intersection of Little Falls Parkway and River Road.

First responders arrived to find a man in his 20s had fallen from the first floor of the home into the basement.

Nesselt said the man was immobilized as a precaution and he never lost consciousness.

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