HOLLAND, Mich. (WWJ) -- A worker putting together a Ferris wheel for the Tulip Time festival, in West Michigan's Holland, is hospitalized after a fall.
The Holland Department of Public Safety said, just after 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, officers and firefighters responded to the parking lot area of the Holland Civic Center, where the rides for the carnival were being assembled, on a report of someone who had fallen while putting together one of the carnival rides.
On the scene, officials learned that a 27-year old man was climbing an extension ladder while working on the Ferris wheel when he lost his footing and fell. The man struck components of the Ferris wheel on the way down, police said.
The worker — identified as an employee of Skerbeck Entertainment Group, which operates the carnival — told emergency crews that he was wearing his safety harness, but that it didn't prevent his fall.
The man was treated at the scene and then air-lifted to Spectrum Health, with what officials described as "serious, but non-life threatening" injuries.
His name was not released.
The Tulip Time festival is scheduled to start on Saturday.
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