DURBAN - A worker sustained a serious head injury after falling eight metres from a service lift platform in Mount Edgecombe, north of Durban, on Thursday, the Netcare 911 private ambulance service said.
"The patient was found by security guards who had alerted emergency services," a statement from the ambulance service said.
"The 31-year-old male had sustained a serious head injury and a fracture of his arm."
Paramedics stabilised the man before transporting him to hospital.