Fifteen workers pulled from a collapsed slab at Gandhinagar's Bosky The Empire

A metal ceiling slab came down at about 9 p.m. on 9 September at Bosky The Empire, an under-construction commercial building in Kudasan, Gandhinagar. Fifteen workers were brought out. Twelve went to Gandhinagar Civil Hospital. Three were sent home. Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghavi, already in the capital for the assembly session, stood at the site and said the hospital superintendent had just told him none of the twelve was critical.

Health Minister Praful Pansheriya said early reports included fractures of the back and leg. Dr Meeta Parikh, medical superintendent at GMERS Civil Hospital, later said two patients had spine injuries and the rest were stable. Pansheriya said treatment would stay in Gandhinagar unless a case truly needed Ahmedabad.

What fell, and why crews kept cutting overnight

The building had reached the third floor. Preliminary accounts say a crane hit the ceiling while work was still on. Firefighters brought a large crane and electric cutters to lift and slice the metal. Sanghavi said municipal teams, district police, the state disaster force and the National Disaster Response Force were on the ground, with cutters and cranes rated above 300 tonnes.

The site manager and staffing supervisors told officers that no one remained under the slab. Sanghavi said senior administrators would still clear debris through the night rather than take that assurance as final. Four fire tenders and six GVK-EMRI 108 ambulances ran the first hour.

Early television reports had spoken of ten to fifteen workers trapped and only four rescued. Those numbers were the fog of the first hour. By Thursday morning the reconciled figure was fifteen rescued, twelve admitted, zero declared still missing by the people who had the roll.

Why this site will be examined twice

Gandhinagar is a planned capital. Kudasan is the private construction belt that grew beside it. A commercial mall going up to only three floors should not drop a slab on a night shift unless the lift plan, the crane path or the pour was wrong. The crane-hit theory is convenient and may be true. It still leaves a question about why workers were under a slab that a crane could strike.

Gujarat's recent record of site accidents will shape the inquiry. So will the fact that two ministers reached the scene before midnight because the assembly was in town. That speed is useful for hospitals. It does not replace a structural report that names the contractor, the crane operator and the engineer who signed the lift.

For the twelve beds in Civil Hospital the next 48 hours matter more than the press line. Spine injuries can change after the first night. Sanghavi's statement that no one is critical is a snapshot from the superintendent, not a discharge summary.

Kudasan will go back to work. The useful public residue of this collapse is a named building, a named hour, a crane on the preliminary sheet and a hospital count that can be audited tomorrow. That is more than most construction accidents leave behind on the first morning.