Video shows a scaffolding plank falling inches from a person walking into Boston's South Station 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.

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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.

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,