At approximately 10h00 on Tuesday morning 12 May 2009, Netcare 911 paramedics responded to reports that a construction worker had sustained very serious injuries after falling from the roof of a building that was under construction at a shopping centre in Comaro street in Oakdene, east of Johannesburg.
Paramedics arrived to find the victim lying on a lower level, he was still wearing his safety harness and it appeared that he had fallen whilst working on the roof of the building. The building is under construction and paramedics were told that it will be a covered car parking area when completed.
The victims supervisor told paramedics that the victim was about 25 years old. He was in a critical condition and was said to have fallen about 12 metres. He had a decreased level of consciousness and had sustained several fractures to his arms and legs as well as a serious chest injury on his left side. He was attended to by an advanced life support paramedic and medication was administered as part of the treatment to try and stabilised the victim at the scene.
He was transported by ambulance to the Netcare Union hospital and is currently on life support machinery in the Intensive Care Unit.
Nick Dollman
mobilemedia
Netcare 911
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