Serious industrial accident on Thursday in an apartment building in Matrei in East Tyrol! A 67-year-old woman was hit in the head by a sinking elevator car during cleaning work. She was flown to hospital in Klagenfurt. It is still unclear why the accident occurred.
The couple who own the apartment complex were cleaning an elevator shaft on Thursday. “In order to clean the elevator windows in the basement, the elevator car was manually controlled by the owner in the server room,” the police said. This created a height of approximately 1.50 meters between the tiled floor and the cabin floor. The woman therefore climbed into the elevator shaft with a ladder.
67-year-old rescued by fire brigade
For unknown reasons, the elevator car unexpectedly dropped about 50 centimeters and hit the woman on the head. “She fell backwards to the bottom of the shaft,” investigators said. The man heard the crash from his wife and immediately called 911. The volunteer fire brigade secured the driver’s cabin against further descent and treated the injured person in the elevator shaft. After the rescue, the 67-year-old was flown by emergency helicopter to the hospital in Klagenfurt. The Matrei fire brigade in East Tyrol with five vehicles and 25 emergency services, the Matrei rescue service in East Tyrol including an emergency doctor, the Christophorus 7 emergency helicopter and a police patrol were present.
Source: Krone
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