(Estherville)– Officials with GKN Wheels say a portion of their roof collapsed around 7:45 a.m. Tuesday at their Estherville facility.
KUOO News has learned the Estherville Fire Department and Ambulance Service were called to the scene, but a statement issued by the company didn’t say whether anyone was hurt. It says “all employees are safe and operations have been closed this (Tuesday) evening.”
The statement adds the company is still conducting assessments and that they expect to be operational by the end of the week.
The statement also credits emergency response teams, saying they did “a superb job responding and securing the building”.
Meanwhile, no one was hurt when a portion of the roof over a warehouse at Mau Marine in Okoboji collapsed sometime either late Monday night or early this (Tuesday) morning.
A roof over one of the marina’s liveries on East Lake Okoboji collapsed a couple weeks ago.
Last week, the roof over a garage at a Spirit Lake apartment complex collapsed, damaging several vehicles inside it.
A number of other roofs, mainly over larger buildings, have collapsed as well in recent weeks from heavy loads of snow and ice. Here again authorities say no injuries were reported, but in most cases a signficant amount of property damage was reported to the buildings themselves and equipment inside them (in some cases trucks).
