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A builder was seriously injured yesterday (Weds) when a 1.7 metre high scaffolding he was standing on collapsed, police said.

Collapsing scaffold injures builder

A builder was seriously injured yesterday (Weds) when a 1.7 metre high scaffolding he was standing on collapsed, police said.

The 56-year-old temporary worker was applying plaster to the wall of a building at a construction site in Vitis in Lower Austria’s Waidhofen an der Thaya when the collapse happened. The reason are as yet unknown.

The man was taken to a hospital in Horn.

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