Tuesday 22 July 2008
14.44 Marsh Street, Bristol
A man was taken to hospital with serious head injuries following
an incident at a Bristol building site.
On arrival crews found the man, who had been working
at the bottom of a lift shaft when he received the head
injury. As he was around three metres below the nearest
access point the rope rescue team from Temple Fire Station
were mobilised.
Working alongside paramedics and the Air Ambulance crew,
firefighters worked quickly to set a lines and a pulley. The
injured man was placed into a strecther before being winched from
the base of the shaft in a swift operation lasting around 20
minutes.
He was then transferred to hospital with what are believed to be
serious head injuries.