A
fall into the dumping area at the Hastings Refuse Transfer
Station on Sunday has left a resident with no serious
injuries.
Staff at the site called an ambulance and the
Hastings man, in his fifties, was taken to hospital however
he was discharged the same day.
The man was dumping waste
from the one area without a barrier, used for tipping
trailers, when he fell 1.5m onto the concrete below.
The
man suffered no serious injuries and Worksafe New Zealand
completed an investigation on Monday. It was happy with
Hastings District Council’s progress on making the
transfer station safer, a council spokesman said.
In
February tall barriers were installed across the face of the
tipping area and a contract had been let to build a steel
ramp below the tipping point to make the drop less
dangerous.
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