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Austria Now News – Tyrol | A 48-year-old worker has suffered life-threatening injuries in a workplace accident at the Brenner Base Tunnel (Brennerbasistunnel) construction site in Tyrol after a stack of concrete elements collapsed and part of it fell on him, police said.
Colleagues freed him with a forklift
The accident happened on Monday morning outside the tunnel at the construction site in Steinach am Brenner, where the stack of concrete elements collapsed for reasons that remain unknown, trapping the worker underneath. According to police, his colleagues rushed to help, lifted the concrete parts with a forklift and freed him. After first aid, paramedics took him to Innsbruck University Hospital (Klinik Innsbruck).
A series of accidents on the project
The accident comes one day after a construction worker was seriously injured on the Italian side of the project in South Tyrol, when a transport vehicle crashed into a parked crane and trapped the driver’s legs, according to media reports. The major infrastructure project has seen several serious accidents in recent years: two workers were killed in 2024, and three serious accidents occurred within a single week in spring 2025, one of them fatal. The last serious accident before that was last September, when a construction worker was hit by a transport train.
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- tirol.ORF.at: Arbeiter auf BBT-Baustelle schwer verletzt, 02.11.2026, https://tirol.orf.at/stories/3377850/
