Injured Bangladeshi worker rescued from 40m crane in S’pore
A Bangladeshi migrant worker was rescued in a frantic effort by firefighters in Singapore after he got stuck on a tower crane high off the ground on Monday.
The 46-year-old man working on the crane found himself suspended 40 metres up and unable to head down to safety, after injuring his leg in mid-air, The Straits Times reported on Tuesday.
The report did not mention identity of the man and how the worker got himself injured.
When alerted to the incident at a construction site on Monday at 4:25pm (local time), the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) sent in a team of firefighters and members of its elite division, the Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (Dart), to rescue the worker, the report said.
Four Dart specialists scaled a cat ladder to access the crane, before traversing across its narrow arm to reach the injured man, it said, citing SCDF's Facebook post.
The team members secured themselves in place and set up a lowering system with ropes and pulleys.
One of the Dart specialists, who was cross-trained as an emergency medical technician, treated and bandaged the man's wound while up on the crane.
Meanwhile, another team of Dart specialists on the ground prepared a stretcher and secured it to a rope that the team on the crane had prepared.
Working in tandem, the two teams hoisted the stretcher to where the injured man was, before safely securing him to the stretcher, said the ST report, referring to a video post.
One hour into the operation, a Dart specialist on the crane attached himself to the stretcher, which was then slowly lowered to the ground in concert with the other specialists and firefighters who had been deployed.
SCDF said a paramedic assessed the man's injuries before he was taken to Sengkang General Hospital.
The Singapore Ministry of Manpower, which was investigating the incident, said the developer of the project at the site is Singhaiyi Huajiang Sun.
The site occupier is China Construction (South Pacific) Development, while the injured worker's employer is Capital Cranes Global.