A worker suffered the amputation of at least part of his left arm in an accident at an apartment high-rise under construction in the River North neighborhood, authorities said.
The 34-year-old man was injured about 4:20 p.m. in an accident in an elevator shaft at the building under construction in the 700 block of North Hudson Street, said Office Kevin Quaid, a police spokesman. The man suffered an injury to his left arm, Quaid said.
Rescue crews were called to the building at Hudson and Chicago following a report of an amputation and took a victim in critical condition to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was in surgery Saturday afternoon, a Chicago Fire Department spokesman said.
The Hudson, a 25-story high-rise apartment building, is under construction at the site of the accident at 750 N. Hudson St.