Three construction workers were dramatically rescued from a crane after it crashed into the third floor of a building in Victoria, Australia on Tuesday. According to local media reports, the three men were trapped on an open platform attached to the crane for nearly an hour.
ABC News reports that the platform was extended to a height of about three storeys. The elevated platform suddenly malfunctioned and fell several metres before stopping mid-air.
Aerial pictures show the three men clinging on to the platform, perched at a precarious angle high up in the air, waiting to be rescued.
According to ABC News, firefighters were able to reach the trapped men with a specialist ladder from a fire truck.
"One man has an arm injury...The other two were taken to hospital for observation," The Sydney Morning Herald reports an ambulance spokesperson as saying.
ABC News reports that the platform was extended to a height of about three storeys. The elevated platform suddenly malfunctioned and fell several metres before stopping mid-air.
Aerial pictures show the three men clinging on to the platform, perched at a precarious angle high up in the air, waiting to be rescued.
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According to ABC News, firefighters were able to reach the trapped men with a specialist ladder from a fire truck.
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Update: all three men have now been rescued. pic.twitter.com/a3UBDpQDCx
— Joanna Crothers (@jocrothers) May 30, 2017
"One man has an arm injury...The other two were taken to hospital for observation," The Sydney Morning Herald reports an ambulance spokesperson as saying.
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