05.10.2015

Suspended platform collapse

A man was seriously injured today after the suspended platform he was working from plummeted to the ground, possibly striking a boom lift on the way down?

The local fire department was also called in to rescue two men - also working on the building - from a boom lift - a Gene S-125 - using a fire ladder. Details are scant at this stage, but it seems that two men were working from the suspended scaffold, one managed to scramble through a window , while the other, aged 46, fell over 20 metres with the swing stage platform, and may have landed on a parked car. He was rushed to hospital with life threatening injuries. We will update this item when we learn more about what actually happened.
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This photograph shows both the rescue and the fallen swing-stage

We have been informed that the swing stage platform was working on the Greenway Plaza and had been supplied by local company Big City Access to contractor Burton Construction.