Man killed in one of three workplace incidents across Sydney
A man has died from a severe head injury while working at a pallet factory in Sydney’s west. It’s one of three workplace accidents across the city this morning with two other men injured.
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A man has died from a severe head injury at a pallet factory in St Marys — one of three workplace incidents in three hours across Sydney this morning.
Emergency crews were called to a pallet factory on Forrester Rd at 5.40am and found the 30-year-old suffering serious injuries and significant blood loss.
Paramedics reportedly found the man with his head stuck in a piece of machinery and commenced CPR, but he couldn’t be saved.
Another two men have been injured at construction sites in Point Piper and Pyrmont.
A man in his 40s fell about eight metres from scaffolding at a property on Longworth Ave in the eastern suburbs, suffering serious head and leg injuries.
The property is the former home of Malcolm Turnbull’s mother, Coral Lansbury, who lived there in the 1940’s prior to her son’s birth.
The former Prime Minister now lives just two doors down from where this morning’s incident took place.
Six NSW Ambulance crews including a specialist medical team responded to the incident on Longworth Ave at 7.40am and treated the man at the scene until just after 9am.
He was then placed on a spinal board and carried onto the sand at Lady Martin’s Beach and through the Royal Prince Edward Yacht Club before being loaded into a waiting ambulance on Wolseley Rd.
He was remains at St Vincent’s Hospital in a critical condition - it is understood family members have flown in from interstate.
Another man was taken to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital after being hit in the head by falling steel pipes at a construction site on Miller St in Pyrmont just after 8am.
Crews treated the man for head and neck injuries at the scene, he’s in a serious but stable condition.
NSW Ambulance Acting Deputy Director Jordan Emery said workplace incidents are becoming “more and more frequent”.
“Incidents at worksites are not only confronting, but can be extremely complex and it shows just how quickly any situation can change,” he said.
“It goes without saying that you shouldn’t underestimate how dangerous it can be on a worksite — there have been three separate incidents in three hours today”
“These situations are harrowing for emergency services, fellow workers and of course the families — emergency services work together under these tense conditions to do everything they can for the patient.”
SafeWork NSW confirmed it is investigating the St Marys and Point Piper incidents with investigators interviewing witnesses at the two scenes today.
“Safework is attending a worksite at St Mary’s today after a worker became trapped in a machine. The worker sustained fatal crush injuries to the head,” a SafeWork spokesperson said.
“Safework is attending a worksite at Point Piper today after a worker fell from scaffolding. Safework is commencing an investigation.”
The accidents come just days after a Fijian national died in a woodchipping accident at Lindfield.
Samuela Cirivakayawa, 40, was drawn inside the machine while working alongside two colleagues for a tree removal company outside a school on Saturday.
The men were cutting and mulching branches from a tall tree when the accident occurred.