Rescue mission frees man trapped in toppled container forklift
Emergency workers have freed a man who had been trapped in the cabin of a tipped shipping container forklift at Melbourne's docks.
Metropolitan Fire Brigade crews were called to Dock Link Road in West Melbourne just after 3.50pm on Thursday after the 75-tonne forklift flipped on its end, trapping the operator inside.
The man was freed around 6pm and transported to hospital. He man is believed to be conscious.
The MFB’s specialist High Angle Rescue Technicians, or HART, attended the incident.
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Ambulance Victoria and Victoria Police were also at the scene, and WorkSafe has been notified.
It is not yet known how the forklift tipped.
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