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SINGAPORE – A man working on a tower crane found himself suspended 40 meters high and was unable to lower himself to safety after injuring his leg in midair.
When alerted to the incident at a How Sun Drive construction site on Monday (September 7) at 4.25pm, the Singapore Civil Defense Force (SCDF) dispatched a team of firefighters and members of its elite division , the Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (Dart) to rescue the worker.
Four Dart specialists climbed a cat ladder to access the crane, before traversing its narrow arm to reach the injured man, SCDF said on Facebook Tuesday.
The team secured themselves in place and installed a descent system with ropes and pulleys.
One of Dart’s specialists, who was cross-trained as an emergency medical technician, treated and bandaged the man’s wound while on the lift.
Meanwhile, another team of Dart specialists on the ground prepared a stretcher and secured it to a rope that had been prepared by the crane team.
Working in tandem, the two teams lifted the stretcher to where the injured man was, before securing him safely to the stretcher, a video posted by SCDF showed.
An hour after the operation, a Dart specialist on the crane was attached to the stretcher, which was then slowly lowered to the ground in concert with the other specialists and firefighters who had been deployed.
SCDF said that a paramedic assessed the man’s injuries before he was taken to Sengkang General Hospital.
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