Man dies after being crushed by wind farm blade in Victoria

ABC NEWS (Australia)

A worker has died at a Victorian wind farm construction site, west of Geelong. Police say the man was crushed beneath a fan blade at a property on Bells Road.

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00:00We're here at the Golden Plains Wind Farm project.

00:04It's the biggest wind farm project in the Southern Hemisphere and it's about a 90-minute

00:09drive west of Melbourne where this morning, shortly after 8am, emergency services were

00:14called out following the reports that a man had been crushed by a wind fan blade.

00:21Now we've seen some helicopter footage from earlier where we can see one of these turbines

00:26being put together.

00:27The three blades are on the ground where they're being worked on before they get hoisted up

00:31and one of them appears to have come off a stand and it's next to a broken ladder and

00:35that is sadly the spot where we can see that the man was attempted to be revived.

00:41Now the police have confirmed that yes, the man is deceased now following attempts to

00:46revive him at the scene at the time which were unsuccessful.

00:50The police will now prepare a report for the coroner and WorkSafe has confirmed that they

00:54will be investigating the incident as well.

00:57As you can see behind us, the roads are closed.

01:00It appears that some of the construction at this site may have stopped for the day and

01:05we know that the renewables company Vestas, who runs it here, they will be speaking to

01:10the media and providing a further update later this afternoon.

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