One man dead and another injured after becoming trapped beneath landfill

A man is dead and another is seriously injured after the pair became trapped beneath landfill in a freak worksite accident in western Sydney.

A man is dead and another is seriously injured after the pair became trapped beneath landfill in a freak worksite accident in western Sydney.

Emergency crews rushed to the Dial a Dump tip on Kangaroo Avenue at Eastern Creek after the incident occurred at about 12.45pm.

The men’s co-workers frantically dug through tonnes of debris with their bare hands in a bid to free them.

Rescuers reached one man, aged in his 30s, after about 10 minutes and he was rushed to Westmead Hospital via helicopter with shoulder and abdominal injuries, where he remains in a stable condition.

The second man was trapped about two metres deeper and it took another 15 minutes for crews to reach him, but he was dead.

A man in his 30s was rushed to hospital with serious injuries.

It’s understood the men were hit by a heavy vehicle, believed to be a tipper, and covered in mounds of waste, which included furniture and white goods.

A Fire and Rescue New South Wales spokesman told the Blacktown Advocate newspaper that the men were crushed by “multiple tonnes of rubbish”.

Police have now established a crime scene.

We are responding to an incident in Eastern Creek where 2 workers were struck with a bulldozer. One was fatally injured; the other has been taken to hospital. #SWIncidentAlert

— SafeWork NSW (@SafeWork_NSW) May 27, 2019

It's understood the men were hit by this heavy vehicle.

Several paramedic crews, including an air unit, were involved in the response, along with numerous firefighters and police.

SafeWork NSW is investigating the incident.

Emergency crews at a waste facility in Eastern Creek. Picture: Channel 7

It's the latest in a string of worksite fatalities in Sydney in recent months.

Christopher Cassaniti, 18, died when a massive pile of scaffolding and building materials fell on him and another worker, 39, at a construction site at Macquarie Park on April 1.

Two days later, Robert Nicholls, 39, was killed while replacing a power pole on the north shore.

And last week, a 25-year-old man was hit by a large truck and killed at a workplace accident in Strathfield.

Originally published as One man dead and another injured after becoming trapped beneath landfill