A crane will be required to extract the body of a man who died during a scaffolding incident at a school in Sydney’s inner west on Friday morning, police say.
The man was working as a stone mason and was fatally injured by falling scaffolding and concrete at Fort Street High in Petersham just before 11.30am.
Emergency services arrived at the scene, but nothing could be done to save the man.
NSW Fire and Rescue Superintendent Adam Dewberry said police will now begin the difficult task of removing the man’s body from the site which remains stuck under debris.
Dewberry said police were currently reviewing the best way to extract the man’s body and said a crane would be brought in to remove some debris.
“It’s going to be a protracted and complex operation to recover the person,” he said.
“Police rescue will be facilitating this, and it’s likely we are going to have to use a crane.”
Fort Street High School in Petersham.Credit:Steven Siewert
Four rescue crews from Fire and Rescue NSW attended the scene on Friday morning alongside NSW Police and NSW Ambulance crews.
The cause of the incident is unknown.