Police officers stood outside the Fogg Museum after a construction worker was rushed to a hospital yesterday. The worker was injured in an accident while working on the interior renovations of the building.

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A construction worker fell and was injured while working on the Fogg Museum renovation yesterday, according to reports from witnesses at the scene.

Police, firefighters, and ambulances gathered outside the museum at 32 Quincy Street around 4 p.m.

But onlookers said that they did not know exactly what had taken place.

“I just looked out front and saw it. I think it was someone who’s working on the renovation,” said Michael J. Fahey, an attendant at the Sackler Museum.

According to Daron J. Manoogian, Director of Communications for Harvard University Art Museums, medical assistance was summoned and the worker was transported to a hospital. Manoogian said that he had not received a report about the details of the accident.

The construction worker was an employee of Skanska, a Swedish construction company whose U.S. operations are based in Parsippany, N.J., according to Andrew B. McCabe. McCabe is the president of Joseph P. McCabe Inc., the construction company working on the exterior renovation of the Fogg Museum. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW]

Skanska is performing the interior renovation, and the accident took place inside the building.

Since this summer, the Fogg Museum has been on lockdown for the long-discussed renovation intended to unite the Sackler, Fogg, and Busch-Reisinger Museums.

The renovations, designed by renowned Italian architect Renzo Piano, will preserve the historic elements of the original 1927 building while adding more exhibition space. The new wing will take the place of previous additions, which have been added incrementally to the Fogg over the past 80 years.

Plans to renovate the Fogg have been in the works since 2003. Earlier this year, the museum’s collection—composed of more than 260,000 works—was transported to an off-site location for storage.

The entire construction project, which involves the demolition of old wings and the construction of the expansion, is expected to take three years, and the move back into the building and is expected to take another year. The expanded Fogg is scheduled to re-open in 2013.

Representatives from Skanska and the Cambridge Fire Department could not be reached for comment.

—Staff writer Liyun Jin can be reached at ljin@fas.harvard.edu.

CORRECTION

The April 3 news article "Worker Injured in Fogg Construction" incorrectly stated that the worker injured was with the Swedish construction firm Skanska, based on information from Andrew B. McCabe, the president of Joseph P. McCabe Inc., another construction firm working with Harvard. In fact, the worker injured was working for Preservation Timber Framing, Inc., according to University spokeswoman Lauren Marshall.