Malaysia Construction Worker Hurt In Elevator Shaft Fall

A construction worker in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, was injured but survived a fall from a building’s sixth floor to its basement while he was working on an elevator shaft, The Star reports. The 55-year-old man was working January 14 on the shaft of a 25-story, mixed-used building under construction when he fell. The local Sabah Fire and Rescue Department received an emergency call at about 12:30 p.m., and rescuers arrived and winched down the shaft to reach the victim. They then used a pulley method to get him out on a stretcher. The man suffered a leg injury, but the extent of his injury was not clear. The cause of his fall was not immediately reported. The rescue took approximately an hour.