A worker was rushed to hospital Thursday morning after a crane overturned at the construction site of the Core Pacific Plaza (京華廣場) in Taipei’s Songshan District (松山).
Taipei police received a report at 8:29am that a crane at the site had toppled over, crushing the arm of its operator. The operator, a man in his early 30s, was trapped in the crane for nearly an hour before rescue workers were able to free him at 9:20am. The man was conscious when pulled from the crane and was rushed to hospital, police said, adding that an investigation is underway into the cause of the accident.
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The Core Pacific Plaza, which is to house four upscale office buildings spanning 16,500m2, is being built on the former site of the Core Pacific City Co (京華城) – a shopping mall that started out being open 24 hours a day, and was the largest mall in Taiwan when it was built in 2001. The mall closed in 2019 due to a decline in popularity caused by “its distance from the nearest MRT station and the growing popularity of Xinyi District (信義),” H&B Business Group (住商不動產) head researcher Jessica Hsu (徐佳馨) said in November 2019.
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