US EditionFour dead after scaffolding collapses at Vienna building site
Scaffolding and formwork collapsed during attic conversion concrete work, killing four workers and critically injuring one, rescue teams said.
- On Tuesday, a scaffolding collapse at a residential building on Porzellangasse in Vienna killed four construction workers and injured one man with life-threatening injuries.
- The accident occurred around 2:30 p.m. during concrete work for an attic conversion, with the entire structure giving way while workers were positioned on it.
- Other construction workers aided emergency crews in difficult rescue operations that required manual material removal to extract the sole survivor, who was taken to a hospital.
- Vienna's Professional Rescue Service reported the 45-year-old survivor suffered severe head and spinal injuries, along with fractures to his arms, requiring immediate hospital care.
- Puls24 reported that police and labor inspectors are questioning witnesses, including the crane operator, as authorities investigate the cause of the structural failure.
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4 construction workers killed in scaffolding collapse in Vienna, Austria
Four construction workers were killed and another was seriously injured after a collapse at a residential building in Vienna, Austria, according to police. The collapse happened Tuesday afternoon in the inner courtyard of a multi-unit building on Porzellangasse, where several construction workers were buried for reasons that remain unclear, according to Vienna police. Rescue and recovery operations followed, and one worker was pulled out alive a…
Four workers died today in an accident at a construction site in Vienna, and another is said to be seriously injured, a fire department representative in the Austrian capital said, according to the German news agency dpa.
The workers were buried under scaffolding and concrete. Four workers were killed during the collapse of a scaffolding in Vienna and another badly injured. The accident occurred in an inner courtyard in the district of Alsergrund during the construction of an attic, the rescue forces reported on Tuesday. In the accident several scaffolding parts and a formwork element collapsed.A large operation of the rescue forces was triggered.Among other thin…
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Near Vienna's city centre, concrete works are carried out on a house, but the construction collapses. Four people are killed.
During concrete work in the inner courtyard of a building, construction workers are buried under scaffolding, concrete formwork and liquid concrete. 120 firefighters were in use at the site of the accident.
Four dead after scaffolding collapses at Vienna building site
Four people were killed after scaffolding collapsed at a construction site in the courtyard of a residential apartment building in the upmarket ninth district of Vienna, a police spokesperson said on Tuesday.
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