‘Miraculous escape’ in Hong Kong as clothes-drying racks save scaffolder who fell 10 floors off Hung Hom tower block
- Worker’s fall cushioned by two drying racks on the sixth and ninth floors of Hung Hom building
- The 25-year-old is in serious condition in hospital, government investigating incident
A 25-year-old scaffolder survived a 10-floor plunge from a residential tower block in Hong Kong on Monday after clothes-drying racks broke his fall.
In what police described as a miraculous escape, the worker fell from the window of an 11th-floor flat onto the first-floor podium of the Hung Hom building.
A government spokesman said the man was in a serious condition in Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Yau Ma Tei.
Police said he was erecting scaffolding around the 11th-floor flat of the 17-storey building in Whampoa Garden on Shung King Street when he plummeted at about 9.45am.
“The man hit clothes-drying racks which broke the force of his fall. He landed on the first-floor podium of the building,” a police source said.
Two of the racks on the sixth and ninth floors were damaged.