{"id":351403,"date":"2026-07-24T18:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/351403\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T18:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:48:09","slug":"worker-falls-at-construction-site-near-ucf-football-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/351403\/","title":{"rendered":"Worker falls at construction site near UCF football stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worker hospitalized after fall at construction site near UCF football stadium, officials say<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0ef9e7e2-0673-4d77-92c5-22a1e3663de5_1697751930.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Allison Petro\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A construction worker fell approximately 20 feet while working at the UCF West Tower construction site on Friday, according to Seminole County Fire Rescue.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The 29-year-old worker was transported conscious to Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center as a trauma alert. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\"> Seminole County officials reported that the fall was broken by drywall and mesh material.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Contractors stated that the site has been secured and an investigation is underway.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">At this time, details about the cause of the incident and the worker&#8217;s current health condition remain unknown.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">&gt;&gt; This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Worker hospitalized after fall at construction site near UCF football stadium, officials say ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 A construction&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1227,39143,86918,2238,2770,520,89135,8597,658,667,2772,35105,139,141,140,9498,7629,143718,918],"class_list":["post-351403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-condition","tag-construction-site","tag-construction-worker","tag-contractor","tag-detail","tag-fall","tag-fields","tag-friday","tag-incident","tag-investigation","tag-official","tag-orange-county-fire-rescue","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-story","tag-trauma-alert","tag-ucf-football-stadium","tag-wesh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}