Extremely serious accident at work on a construction site in the port of Hamburg, in Germany. At least five workers died in the German city when scaffolding collapsed.
Scaffolding collapses on construction site, there are victims
According to the Agi agency, the accident occurred in HafenCityA Harbor district a once degraded one that has become one of the greatest Renovation projects urban in Europe.
The Bild newspaper reported that the buildings collapsed at around 8:10 a.m. on Monday, October 30th Scaffolding of the Westfield Hamburg-Überseequartiera new commercial, residential and leisure complex which will include a major new cruise terminal.
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According to the reconstructions, the workers were killed They built the elevator shaft.
Statements from the firefighters
Some people They are buried under scaffolding and are taken into account scattered“Five workers died,” said a fire department spokesman.
“It’s not immediately clear which caused the scaffolding to topple over the construction site,” said the spokesman.
Accident at work in Hamburg
They started on site initial investigations the specialists from the state criminal police. “It’s still too early for that Evaluate the causes of the accident“said a police spokesman.
60 rescuers arrived on site
At the scene of the accident Around 60 rescuers intervened. The entire construction site including around 700 workerswas evacuated.
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The Recovery operations of the missing are complex. “The difficulty, of course, is that we have to repair a lot of scaffolding parts here and first have to go to the construction site floor by floor,” explained the fire department spokesman.
The operations manager described the mountain of rubble as follows: “A huge Mikado with all the scaffolding poles.” They continued to intervene on site 150 firefighters.
Member of the German Bundestag from Hamburg Andy Grote (SPD) expressed its condolences to the families of the victims.
“My condolences and sincere condolences They go to all the victims’ relatives“, he wrote on Platform X (formerly Twitter). At the same time, he thanked the rescuers “who did everything they could for hours to save those injured in the terrible industrial accident as quickly as possible.” Hafencity“.
Have occurred several serious accidents on the construction sites of Hafencity. On September 2, 2023, four workers were injured, some seriously, in a similar accident at a construction site not far from the accident on October 30.
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