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A crane hoisting metal material at the World Trade Center site dropped its load Thursday.
By msnbc.com staff and nbcnewyork.com
Updated at 11:52 a.m. ET: NEW YORK -- A crane hoisting what appeared to be steel beams at the World Trade Center site dropped?its load Thursday, crushing a construction vehicle and sending workers scrambling for safety, local media reported.
The load fell into an area where crews were working, according to NBCNewYork.com. Some of the falling material?smashed a construction vehicle truck but no one was inside, The Wall Street Journal reported. One person was checked out by medical workers at the scene and released,?a New York Fire Department official told the Journal.
The beams, which?were being hoisted to the upper floors of a building project at the site, fell after a crane cable snapped, the Christian Post reported.
The size of the load and the distance it fell were not immediately known.
The accident occurred at the site of the construction of Tower 4, owned by developer Larry Silverstein, the New York Post reported. Construction of that building and at the 9/11 memorial and museum was shut down while authorities investigated, the Post reported.
?It just sounded like a massive thud. Almost like thunder,? David Stein, who was walking to his office in the Financial District when the accident happened, told the Journal. ?I heard construction workers saying that the building shook.?
Police and emergency personnel responded within minutes.
Officials are checking the stability of the site's foundation, the Fire Department said.
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