A 40-year-old worker died after being struck on the head by a crane hook at an under-construction site in Maharashtra’s Thane district. The incident occurred on Monday evening at the site of a housing project in Shirdhon village near Dombivli, reported the news agency PTI.
Crane worker, identified as Vijaynath Ram Bahadur Kushwaha and a technician were engaged in increasing the height of the machine mast installed at the site. As part of the process, a strap was being stretched and fixed to the crane hook to raise the mast.
“While the work was underway, the strap failed to properly fit into the hook due to excessive tension. It suddenly slipped from Kushwaha’s hand and the crane hook struck him on his forehead," an official from Manpada police station told PTI.
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Kushwaha sustained serious head injuries and began bleeding profusely. He was rushed in an ambulance to a nearby private hospital, where he was given first aid. The worker was later shifted to a civic-run hospital, where he died on Tuesday evening. The victim, hailing from Deoria district in Uttar Pradesh, lived in a labourers’ colony at Shirdhon.
The body was later sent for postmortem and a case of accidental death was registered, the police said, adding that a probe was on into the incident.