Inquiry underway after rescue of Greater Gabbard worker

The UK’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is investigating an incident that led to an injured engineer being airlifted from the top of a turbine at the Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm.

The man was injured at 10.40am on 12 November while working on one of more than 120 Siemens 3.6MW turbines already installed at the project, some 20 miles off the coast of Suffolk, England.

The engineer – a contractor for Fluor, which is building the project for utilities SSE and RWE – was determined to have only “minor injuries” after being airlifted to hospital in Ipswich, though it was initially feared he had suffered a broken leg.

The incident follows two fatalities at the 504MW Greater Gabbard project in the past two years.

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