Chilling video from CMFEU which predicted Brisbane construction site tragedy after teenage apprentice Tyler Whitton dies following horror dive on site
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A chilling video predicted the safety issue linked to a fall from scaffolding onto a concrete floor and steps at a construction site, where a young apprentice plunged and was fatally injured.
Tyler Whittonwho had just turned 17 and was starting work as an apprentice bricklayer, fell around three meters on Tuesday at around 1:30 p.m. at a construction site on Victoria Street in the inner-city suburb of West End, Brisbane.
He was rushed to the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital in a serious condition where he was placed in an induced coma but could not be revived.
On June 16, the Construction, Forestry, Mining, Energy and Maritime Union (CFMEU) posted a video on social media taken during an inspection of the site, in which it stated that A “huge fall from height” is a major safety concern.
Tyler Whitton, 17, died after falling from a construction site where he was working as an apprentice builder.
“We had a fall from height around the building, just over the edge,” the video’s narrator said as he showed a fall of several meters from the scaffolding to the concrete floor and steps.
The union said it was inspecting the site it filmed video of because workers had contacted it that morning with safety concerns.
“The workers raised their concerns with the builder and told the CFMEU that they had not had time to clean the site or follow simple safety procedures,” the union said at the time.
CFMEU State Secretary Michael Ravbar on Wednesday criticized Workplace Health and Safety Queensland for allowing work to continue at the site on Tuesday after Tyler was taken to hospital.
“After it took three hours for WHSQ to show up, the developer was allowed to finish pouring the concrete despite a clearly identified risk of falls from height in several locations on the site’s upper deck,” he said. he declares.
“All under the supervision of a failed regulator who is supposed to manage health and safety at work.”
Video footage of a June site inspection by the construction union highlighted the danger of falls
Site developer CS Development Group and Workplace Health and Safety Queensland, who are investigating the incident, have been contacted for comment.
Meanwhile, Tyler’s grandfather Jack Whitton paid him a heartbreaking tribute on Facebook.
CFMEU State Secretary Michael Ravbar on Wednesday criticized Workplace Health and Safety Queensland for allowing work to continue at the site on Tuesday after Tyler was taken to hospital.
“It is with a heavy heart and felt sadness that today I say goodbye to my beautiful, beloved grandson Tyler,” Mr Whitton wrote.
“Words cannot describe the pain and utter numbness we all feel… knowing we had to let him go.”
Mr Whitton said he couldn’t imagine the pain his son Luke, Tyler’s father, his partner Letitia and Tyler’s mother Jess are going through.
“Tyler, you have touched so many hearts with your life,” Mr. Whitton wrote.
“A parent or grandparent should never have to bury their child, and yet here we are.
“We will send Tyler off with much love in our hearts on his next journey.”
