Three workers died and one was severely injured yesterday after a truck crane malfunctioned at a livestock feed plant in Yunlin County’s Huwei Township (虎尾), causing the basket carrying the men to fall from about 8m.
The Yunlin County Fire Bureau said it received a report about the incident at 1:47pm, informing them that the crane basket had collapsed as workers repaired the roof on a factory in Huwei’s Beisi Village (北溪).
Upon arriving at the scene, emergency responders found three of the men in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), while the another man was unconscious and severely injured, the fire bureau said.
Photo: Lee Wen-de, Taipei Times
The four workers, all Taiwanese nationals, were rushed to area hospitals, where the three in OHCA were declared dead, it said.
The livestock feed company had hired a crane services company to repair the damaged roof of its factory, the Yunlin County Government said.
While the men were working about 8m above the ground, the crane’s cable snapped, causing the basket carrying them to plunge to the ground, it said.
Based on a preliminary investigation, the weight of the men in the basket appeared to have exceeded its maximum intended load, Yunlin police said.
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