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Worker injured in fall at Playa Blanca building site

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An injured worker has been taken to hospital after falling from a height of around three metres at a building site in Playa Blanca, in the municipality of Yaiza, southern Lanzarote.

Complex rescue operation

The Lanzarote Security and Emergency Consortium received the alert at 9.33am on Saturday. The Canary Islands Emergency Service (SUC) requested the Consortium’s assistance to evacuate the casualty, as the layout of the property meant he could not be brought down via the stairs.

Emergency crews attended the scene to facilitate the worker’s evacuation from the upper floor of the building site. Once there, medical staff briefed the emergency teams on the injuries the worker had sustained.

Evacuation by aerial ladder

Given the difficulties of carrying the man down the stairs, crews immobilised him using a vacuum mattress. He was then lowered from the upper floor to ground level with the help of an aerial ladder — a manoeuvre made necessary by the conditions of the property and the impossibility of using the conventional access.

Once the descent was completed, the worker was transferred to an SUC ambulance, which took him to the University Hospital Doctor José Molina Orosa in Arrecife to receive medical treatment.

Multiple agencies at the scene

A number of services were involved in the operation following the workplace accident. In addition to the Lanzarote Security and Emergency Consortium and the SUC, officers from the Civil Guard, Yaiza Local Police and staff from the building site itself also collaborated.

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