A fifth construction worker has died after a serious accident at a large construction site in Hamburg’s Hafencity. This was confirmed by the police situation center in Hamburg. NDR first reported on it.
The worker was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after scaffolding collapsed on October 30th. Four construction workers died at the scene of the accident. According to previous findings, scaffolding fell into an elevator shaft on October 30th. According to the fire department, it fell from the eighth floor into the basement. Debris reached the second floor. Shortly after the accident, the operations manager described the mountain of rubble as a “giant mikado” made of scaffolding poles.
Around 1,400 workers regularly worked on the construction site, but on the day of the accident – a bridge day before Reformation Day – there were only a good 700, a fire department spokesman said.
The Hafencity is considered Europe’s largest inner-city urban development project. There have been several serious accidents on the construction sites there. On September 2nd, four workers were injured, some of them life-threatening, in a similar accident at a construction site on Hamburg’s Elbbrücken – not far from Hafencity.