Two mechanics were injured after they fell off a balcony on the top floor of a four-storey building in Behala while fitting an iron grille on Sunday afternoon, police said.
A vegetable vendor was injured, too, as the two landed on his makeshift stall.
Police said the accident happened around 1.30pm, when Bhola Shah, 45, and Dilip Das, 58, were fixing a grille on the balcony of a fourth-floor flat in Nilanjana Apartment on Diamond Harbour Road.
“The flat was undergoing renovation. The mechanics who were fitting the grille on the balcony possibly slipped and fell,” said an officer of Behala police station.
Residents of the area said the mechanics were lucky because their fall was broken by the bamboo roof of the vegetable stall. Or else they would have landed on the concrete and suffered far serious injuries.
The greengrocer who was injured was Rashmoni Panja, 55, the police said.
All three have been admitted to hospital.
“The findings of a preliminary investigation suggests that the fall was accidental. We will find out whether they were wearing safety belts and helmets. No complaint has been lodged till now,” the officer said.
Biker injured
A man riding a motorbike got injured after he lost control over the vehicle and hit a lamppost on Julpia Road in Haridevpur minutes past Saturday midnight, police said. Rajen Ghosh, 32, a of Haridevpur, has been admitted to SSKM Hospital.
