A construction worker has been taken to hospital after an incident at a major project to build a factory to make foundations for a wind farm in the North East.
K2 Construction Management said a full investigation would be carried out into the episode at the £450m Teesside scheme.
The company is acting as construction manager for the 100,000 square meter project near South Bank train station for Korean company SeAH.
K2 said in a statement: “There was an incident on Friday 1 December which resulted in an injury to a contractor on site.
“Emergency services were contacted and responded quickly to the incident. The Health and Safety Executive has been informed and a full and thorough investigation will now be carried out into what happened. Our thoughts remain with the worker in this moment”.
A North East Ambulance Service spokesman said: “We were called to an incident at a property in John Boyle Road, Teesside at 12.08am. We sent two ambulance crews, a clinical team leader and a doctor. We took a patient to James Cook Hospital.”
The completed factory will produce monopiles up to 120 meters in length, 15.5 meters in diameter and weighing 3,000 tonnes.
An 800-metre-long, 40-metre-high steel manufacturing structure will sit alongside offices, workshops, substations and infrastructure.
