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On the bridge under construction across the Neris back and forth quickly. The injured workers are being taken to the hospital. A large number of police and firefighters also arrived. An employee of the Kauno Tiltai company was killed when the structures fell.
“Metal constructions were missing, people were crushed, one of our employees died. I can’t explain why this happened, the worst thing is that one person died, ”says Aldas Rusevičius, CEO of Kauno tiltai.
PHOTO GALLERY. Construction collapse of bridge under construction in Kaunas killed employee
Four more builders were injured. The condition of the two is serious.
“The firefighters helped to remove a victim alive, stabilized him on a wooden stretcher, took him to the ambulance on the scaffold and the reconnaissance continued,” says Erikas Baltrimavičius, the fire department chief on duty.
The body of the deceased was left lying at the foot of the bridge under construction, pressed by heavy structures, and the rescuers removed by him did not dare to avoid an even greater tragedy.
“We cannot remove the hardware and beams from large constructions with our own equipment, cranes will be organized, special equipment. technique, as well as special knowledge are needed to assess the stability of the structures themselves, whether they can be moved ”, says E. Baltrimavičius.
According to company managers, all the injured and deceased workers experienced work for many years, and the bridge works were plagued for several months as the last stage of the bridge construction works was underway.
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