Jan 26, 2010 7:15 PM | By NIVASHNI NAIR
An electrician was severely burned at a substation at Durban’s new international airport construction site in La Mercy.
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Duncan Barry, the project director from the Ilembe Consortium developing the R7-billion airport north of the city, told The Times that two electricians employed by a sub-contractor were in a substation when an electric fault occurred.
It is believed that the man touched a power source and suffered an electrical shock.
"He was airlifted to a hospital. From what the other workers say, he was badly burned," Barry said.
ER24 spokesman Derrick Banks said the man was taken to St Augustine’s Hospital.
"He is in a critical condition. He sustained about 60 percent burns to his body," he said.
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