Demolition workers lucky to be alive; saved by sausage sandwich.
More details are emerging on Saturday’s scaffolding collapse in Stoke. Accordingt o local newspaper reports, the incident happened when workers from Potteries Demolition began work to demolish a row of 18 terraced houses in Wellington Road.
Although the Health and Safety Executive is yet to investigate the incident, one theory suggests that winds gusting at up to 50 mph pulled on the plastic sheeting that had been put up to stop dust falling on to people’s properties.
The workmen admitted they were lucky to be alive. Richard Marson, aged 26, of Abbey Hulton, said: “We were five minutes’ late going back out after our breakfast and if we had been on time we could have been killed. “My sausage and egg butty [sandwich] saved my life.”
Daniel Simpson, aged 19, of Norton Green, added: “We were working on the scaffolding just before it collapsed. “Then we were in the cabin having breakfast and just heard it come crashing down.”
Chris Morrall, aged 19, of Abbey Hulton, said: “If this had happened any earlier or later, I would’ve been dead.”
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