Pudu Fire and Rescue Station head Armdan Mahad said the victim who was in his 20s was working at the construction site on the third floor before the structure of the building gave way.
“Nine firemen from the Pudu and Hang Tuah stations rushed to the location after receiving a call at 5.36pm.
“The victim, who was believed to have fallen from the third to the first floor, was found dead after being crushed by the collapsed structure,” he said when met at the scene last night.
He said firemen had also inspected the site to ensure the area was safe.
As at 11.30pm, firefighters were still working to extricate the victim.
Meanwhile, Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) confirmed in a statement that a small floor section of the main intake substation (PMU) building near the Cochrane MRT had collapsed yesterday.
According to the statement, the incident was believed to have occurred when the floor scaffolding on the third storey collapsed while concrete was being poured.
“The level of damage due to the collapse is still under investigation,” it said.
Mass Rapid Transit Corporation Sdn Bhd (MRT Corp) said the incident was not related to the Klang Valley MRT project.
Its director of public relations and stakeholder relations, Najmuddin Abdullah, said the construction of the MRT Sungai Buloh-Kajang line, in which Cochrane was one of the stations, was completed and opened to the public in July 2017.
“There is no longer any construction work being undertaken by MRT Corp or any of its contractors at the Cochrane MRT station site.
“The substation which is currently under construction by Tenaga Nasional Bhd is not part of the MRT project,” he said in a statement yesterday.
The substation was believed to be for the upgrading of power supply in the area, he added.