A one-alarm fire broke out this morning inside an elevator shaft at San Francisco General Hospital, leaving seven construction workers and one firefighter with minor injuries and smoke inhalation.

Only one of the construction workers had to be taken to the hospital (which wasn't far, obviously) and one firefighter received a minor injury to her arm.

According to Bay City News, the fire was reported around 9:30 a.m. on the seventh floor of a construction site on hospital grounds, but did not affect normal hospital operations. It was under control by 10:20 a.m. The new building is scheduled to be completed in 2015 and the fire department does not believe the blaze will set back the construction timeline.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation, but SFFD spokeswoman Mindy Talmadge says were doing some welding in the elevator shaft before the fire broke out.

[KTVU]
[BCN/Appeal]