Video shows a scaffolding plank falling inches from a person walking into South Station in Boston, Massachusetts last week. No one was hurt in the incident Friday, involving a piece what the Boston Inspectional Services Department called rigging gear that fell from One Financial, a skyscraper across the street from South Station.

Some commuters at Boston’s South Station had a near miss with a falling plank on November 8, with the dramatic incident caught on surveillance video.Footage released by the MBTA shows the moment the falling plank almost hit people heading into the station.

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Commuters in Boston were left ducking out of the way when strong winds sent a scaffolding plank crashing down next to them outside of a train station. “I thought that there was like a shooting or something in the station,

A potentially serious incident was narrowly averted in Boston when a scaffold plank unexpectedly dropped from a 46-floor skyscraper last Friday. The plank missed pedestrians by mere moments as they commuted through South Station,