Worker falls into elevator shaft at DeKalb police headquarters

By Ty Tagami

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A DeKalb County worker fell into an elevator shaft at the county police headquarters Wednesday morning and suffered a cut to his head.

The maintenance worker had opened the elevator shaft to retrieve someone else's cellphone, and he fell about five feet, Mekka Parish, a police department spokeswoman, told the AJC.

He suffered a laceration to his head, but did not fall on his head and was conscious and alert after the incident, Parish said.

"I think he hit something in the shaft," she said.

The police headquarters is in a steel and glass tower near I-285 in Tucker. The man fell around 8 a.m., according to the county's 911 dispatch center.

Neither the police department, the dispatch center nor the fire department could provide the man's identity.

Parish said he was taken to a local hospital, either Grady Memorial Hospital or DeKalb Medical Center. There was no word on his condition Wednesday afternoon.