Construction worker injured after falling through roof of banquet center in Lawrence County

NESHANNOCK, Pa. — “I’m nauseous. As a guy in the construction industry, when you hear these things, it makes you sick,” Geoff Measel told Channel 11.

Measel and his family own the New Englander Banquet Hall in Neshannock, and found out that one of the guys they hired to work on their roof fell through it this morning.

There was an event being held there when he came through the ceiling.

“We are really upset. We are praying for the young man because we believe he’s in his early 20s, and he has a long life ahead of him. We hope that he can recover and make a full recovery,” he added.

Police identified the worker as 23-year-old Donald Wilson of Mercer.

According to Measel, it was a fortunate coincidence that several of the people who were at the event were paramedics and doctors.

“It was a blessing in disguise. There was actually a lot of paramedics and doctors in the crowd. So, as he fell through the roof, they jumped to the scene, and were taking really great care of him,” Measel said.

Wilson didn’t fall on anyone, and no one else was hurt.

“Normally, that room isn’t occupied during this time, so the Good Lord works in mysterious ways. We had the people who needed to help him literally right there,”

Witnesses say Wilson was bleeding from his head, and an ambulance took him to a hospital in Youngstown.

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