SCDF responders rescue injured worker from 40m-high crane

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SINGAPORE: A worker who injured his leg while on a crane 40m in the air was rescued by the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) on Monday ...

An SCDF rescuer and an injured worker on a stretcher are lowered to the ground. SINGAPORE: A worker who injured his leg while on a crane 40m in the air was rescued by the Singapore Civil Defence Force on Monday afternoon .

A team of firefighters and specialists from SCDF's disaster assistance and rescue team were deployed to bring the man down to safety, the authority said in a Facebook post on Tuesday.The incident took place at a construction site along How Sun Drive at about 4.30pm. "A team of four DART specialists climbed a cat ladder up the crane and traversed across its narrow arm to reach the injured man," said SCDF."One of the specialists who was cross-trained as an emergency medical technician treated and bandaged the man’s wound, all while being suspended 40m in the air," said the authority.

 

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