Expectant South African worker critical after falling from 4-storey building

An expectant South African construction worker was critically injured after falling from a building at a worksite on Wednesday in Chase Valley near Town Bush Road in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
The woman was rushed to ER24, an emergency medical centre in the area. Commenting on the incident, ER24 spokesman Russel Meiring said that the woman had fallen down the building while working on scaffolding.
Reports indicate that she was trying to relocate to another section when she slipped and fell. She is said to have hit scaffolding on her way to the ground on a 12m building.
Meiring said that doctors found the woman trapped in scaffolding.
“Upon examining the Expectant worker, paramedics discovered that she had sustained severe injuries in her head and back. Immediate treatment and life support mechanism were performed on the woman to save her vital body organs,” he explained.
This is not the first time that workers die after falling from buildings South Africa. Early this year, a construction worker died after falling into a trench at the Blue Hills mall in Midrand, Johannesburg. The 53 year old man’s body was found trapped inside a trench.
It is an issue that resonates in other African countries as well where construction workers have lost their lives after falling from buildings. In March this year, one man died while another sustained serious injuries in Zimbabwe, when an elevator they were decommissioning at Chaminuka Building in Harare developed a fault and plunged from the 6th floor to the ground floor.
In June this year, a Kenyan worker fell from a two storey building in Mai Mahiu and died on the spot. The man was said to be shifting from one section of the building to another when he fell.