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Five Workers Injured as Temporary Staircase Collapses at Reinbek Hospital Site

Authorities opened a safety probe into the temporary staircase failure.

Overview

  • The staircase on a two-storey construction-container unit detached, causing a fall of roughly two to three meters.
  • Police put the accident at around 10:40 a.m. on Thursday on the grounds of St. Adolf Stift in Reinbek, Schleswig-Holstein.
  • Injury reports conflict, with police citing three serious and two minor injuries, while the hospital reports two moderate and three light.
  • Emergency services responded with a large deployment; two injured workers were taken by ambulance and three walked into the emergency department.
  • Police sealed the site for an investigation involving a technical expert, the Berufsgenossenschaft and DEKRA to determine the cause.