US EditionFour dead after scaffolding collapses at Vienna building site
- Four construction workers died and one was injured on Tuesday afternoon when scaffolding collapsed in the inner courtyard of a residential building on Porzellangasse in Vienna, Austria.
- Austrian outlet Puls24 reported that scaffolding and formwork collapsed at 2:30 p.m. during concrete work tied to an attic conversion, with the entire structure giving way.
- Other construction workers assisted emergency crews during the difficult rescue operation, and one 45-year-old man was pulled from the rubble alive and taken to a hospital.
- The surviving worker suffered life-threatening injuries, including severe head and spinal trauma, according to Vienna Professional Rescue Service; he remains under medical care.
- Police and labor inspectors are questioning witnesses, including the crane operator, as the cause of the accident at Porzellangasse remains under investigation.
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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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