A serious incident occurred this afternoon at the Tembisa dumpsite.
It is still unclear as to how the incident occurred, but workers were offloading garbage with a dumpster truck and a dumpster bin. Somehow one of the workers was crushed between the truck and the dumpster.
When ER24 paramedics arrived at the scene the male patient believed to be aged in his thirties, was in severe pain. Due to the terrain surrounding the scene and the distance to the nearest appropriate medical facility, the on scene paramedics promptly dispatched the ER24 Discovery Medicopter to the scene.
Whilst waiting for the Medicopter to land at the dumpsite, paramedics immobilized the injured man to specialised equipment. Within minutes the medicopter was at the scene. The man was then airlifted in a stable condition to Sandton Medi-Clinic.
Andre Visser, ER24
