A worker was hospitalized after falling into an elevator shaft in a building in northern Moscow.

A worker was injured after falling into an elevator shaft from the fourth floor in an uninhabited building in the Timiryazevsky district of Moscow. This was reported in the press service of the Moscow Prosecutor's office on Monday, November 24.

"In a non-residential building on Pryanishnikov Street, an employee of a commercial organization fell into an elevator shaft from a height of the fourth floor. The man was hospitalized," the press service told the Moscow City News agency.

The man was working in the elevator shaft and fell down. The victim survived, but is in serious condition. 360.ru .

The Koptevsky interdistrict prosecutor's office took control of clarifying all the circumstances and causes of the incident, as well as the course and results of the procedural check, writes RIAMO.

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