{"id":687609,"date":"2026-01-10T22:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T22:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/687609\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T22:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T22:03:18","slug":"man-36-in-critical-condition-after-incident-at-demolition-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/687609\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 36, in critical condition after incident at demolition site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Emergency services were alerted to reports of an injured man at the site on Waverley Road shortly after about 9.15am on Friday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/topics\/scottish-ambulance-service\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scottish Ambulance Service<\/a> (SAS) dispatched an ambulance, a trauma team and a special operations team to the scene, while the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/topics\/scottish-fire-rescue-service\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scottish Fire and Rescue Service<\/a> (SFRS) sent two fire appliances and two special appliances.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Police were also in attendance.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/25754939.lecturers-scottish-university-overwhelmingly-vote-favour-strike-action\/?ref=ed_latest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Lecturers at Scottish university overwhelmingly vote in favour of strike action<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A 36-year-old man was taken to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/topics\/queen-elizabeth-university-hospital\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queen Elizabeth University Hospital<\/a> in Glasgow, where his condition is described as \u201ccritical\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Officers said an investigation is ongoing, and that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/health\/?ref=au\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Health<\/a> and Safety Executive has been informed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A police cordon was put in place around the scene following the incident, with the public being asked to avoid the area.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/topics\/police-scotland\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Police Scotland<\/a> spokesperson said: \u201cOfficers and emergency services were called to a demolition site on Waverley Road in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-gazette.co.uk\/local-news\/paisley-news\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Paisley<\/a> on Friday, January 9, 2026 after a man was injured.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThe 36-year-old was taken to hospital where hospital staff describe his condition as critical.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cAn investigation into the circumstances remains ongoing and the Health and Safety Executive have been informed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/25754553.hunger-strikers-brink-death-activists-send-messages-love\/?ref=ed_latest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Hunger strikers on &#8216;brink of death&#8217; as activists send messages of love<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cA cordon remains in place and the public should avoid the area.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A SAS spokesperson said: \u201cWe received a call today to attend an incident on Waverley Road in Paisley.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe dispatched one ambulance, our trauma team and our special operations team to the scene.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe transported one male patient to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services were alerted to reports of an injured man at the site on Waverley Road shortly after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-687609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115873067978184230","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}