Hastings District Council Press Release

A fall into the dumping area at the Hastings Refuse Transfer Station on Sunday has left a resident with no serious injuries.

Staff at the site called an ambulance and the Hastings man, in his fifties, was taken to hospital however he was discharged the same day.

The man was dumping waste from the one area without a barrier, used for tipping trailers, when he fell 1.5m onto the concrete below.

The man suffered no serious injuries and Worksafe New Zealand completed an investigation on Monday. It was happy with Hastings District Council’s progress on making the transfer station safer, a council spokesman said.

In February tall barriers were installed across the face of the tipping area and a contract had been let to build a steel ramp below the tipping point to make the drop less dangerous.

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