A 48-year-old Brussels man has been killed after a crane toppled over and hit the aerial work platform that he was working in at a building site in the West Flemish town of Roeselare. The West Flemish Division of the Ghent Labour Auditor’s Office has confirmed that a man died at the building site and says that it has launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the accident.
The accident happened on a construction site at Krommebeek Park in Roeselare, where the construction company Willy Naessens is working on a project for the logistics company Eutraco.
For reasons that are still unclear, a crane that was being used at the building site suddenly tipped over. The crane crashed into an aerial platform where the victim, a 48-year-old Moldovan man from Brussels, was working. He was thrown from the aerial platform and sustained serious injuries.
Emergency services rushed to the scene and the man was taken to hospital in a critical condition. He later died of his injuries. The West Flanders Division of the Ghent Labour Auditor’s Office has launched an investigation into the cause of and circumstances surround the accident.
The Service for the Supervision of Well-being at Work has been to the scene of the accident and a technical expert has been appointed to examine the stability of crane.