A contractor died while doing repairs in Salt Rock, KwaZulu-Natal. Image: Facebook/IPSS Medical Rescue.The incident happened on 8 May. reports, the man was busy working in a trench when a water pipe burst.
This caused the trench to collapse, burying the man waist-deep in the sand and filling up with water.“IPSS Medical Rescue paramedics and IPSS Search and Rescue members worked alongside Kwadukuza Fire Department and CERT Tongaat to free the man. Sadly, he was declared deceased on the scene. Our sincere condolences to his family and friends,” Dylan Merrick from IPSS said.
City of Tshwane Emergency Services spokesperson Charles Mabaso said one contract worker was transported to a nearby hospital with moderate to serious injuries. Two escaped with no injuries from a trench estimated to be six metres deep and four metres wide. The workers were employees of a contractor that was contracted to the City of Tshwane and were busy with repair work of a sewage line in Capital Park.
Mabaso said it took 12 hours to retrieve the bodies of the three contractors because of the unstable ground.
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