Man in hospital after becoming trapped in collapsed building.
A demolition worker is recovering in hospital after being trapped under a collapsed building at a primary school.
Emergency services were called to Lympstone Primary School at School Hill, in the East Devon village.
A 50-year-old male was taken to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth with neck and leg injuries. They are not thought to be life threatening.
The casualty was a workman who was demolishing a long standing temporary building at the school. The incident happened during lunchtime and was witnessed by several schoolchildren.
The school’s headteacher Tony Priest said the man who was trapped was one of three workmen in a building that was being demolished.
He said: “The school is going through a period of expansion and as a result some of the older rooms are being demolished.
“This particular building was a temporary structure that had been in use for many years. During the lunch time two of the walls and the roof of the building came down. There were three workmen on the site, two managed to get clear but the other was caught under the roof. He was well and truly trapped by his legs under the rubble. The emergency services arrived promptly and used specialist jacks to raise the rubble. It took about two hours to free the man.”
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