{"id":72258,"date":"2026-08-14T22:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T22:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/72258\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T22:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T22:42:15","slug":"man-in-critical-condition-after-workplace-crane-accident-near-albury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/72258\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in critical condition after workplace crane accident near Albury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Three men have been injured, with one in a critical condition, after a workplace accident in which a glass panel was dropped from a crane onto them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A NSW Ambulance spokesperson said paramedics were called to Glen Park in the northern Albury suburb of Glenroy around noon today after reports of the panel being dropped at the worksite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">It is believed two sets of thick glass panels were being moved from a shipping container via crane to another area of the park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">All three men were sent via ambulance to Albury Hospital, with a man in his 20s sustaining critical injuries to his head, chest and leg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Another man, also in his 20s, had injuries to his leg and back and was in a serious but stable condition.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A cordoned off area with police srtanding in front of a crane and shipping container\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3e3ec2b0878a9112670cabeac53fee05.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Police cordoned off the park area where the incident occurred. (ABC News: Philippe Perez)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A third man of unknown age had minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A SafeWork NSW spokesperson said the organisation was investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;SafeWork NSW has been notified and is responding to an incident at a construction site at Glenroy \u2026 where three workers have been injured, &#8221; the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;SafeWork NSW inspectors are on site and making enquiries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;As enquiries are ongoing, no further comment is available at this time. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">NSW Police officers and forensic investigators were still at the scene several hours after the incident occurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three men have been injured, with one in a critical condition, after a workplace accident in which a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,21,101325,101324,2021,34511,5757],"class_list":["post-72258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-crane-drops-glass-on-workers","tag-glass-dropped-on-workers","tag-nsw-police","tag-safework-nsw","tag-workplace-accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}