Yesterday at around 17h30 Netcare 911 paramedics received a call for the workers that had fallen from a hydraulic life while working on streetlights in the Scottsville area of Pietermaritzburg. Reports from the scene indicate that the cage that the men stand in broke causing them to plunge to the ground.
The Netcare 911 advanced life support paramedic and his team arrived at the scene and found both men to have sustained life-threatening injuries. Medics worked fervently at the scene to stabilise the worker before they transported them to a specialised facility for the care that they required.
Tragically, the workers later passed away due to the extensive injuries that they sustained.