71-year-old seriously injured in four-metre fall at work

A 71-year-old man was seriously injured in a fall while building a wooden scaffold in Bad Schwanberg, in the Deutschlandsberg district, ORF reported.

Emergency services were called to a single-family home at about 10 a.m. on Tuesday after the man was found badly hurt. He had been working in an outbuilding when a wooden post apparently fell and pulled him down from a height of about four metres.

He suffered serious injuries, particularly to his head and chest, and was flown by rescue helicopter Christophorus 12 to Graz Hospital.