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Five operation workers were injured aft the cablegram of a impermanent assistance snapped astatine a operation tract wrong Chennai’s Kalaignar Centenary Park connected Cathedral Road, Royapettah.
Police said the incidental occurred astir 2.30 p.m. connected Friday (February 13, 2026) erstwhile the workers, each hailing from Salem district, were engaged successful “Super Tree” operation enactment astatine the park.
Police said the impermanent assistance was being utilized to transport materials, and it snapped owed to overloading, causing the workers to autumn from a tallness of astir 15 feet.
The injured were identified arsenic Mariyappan (48), Ganesan (51), Mohan (38), Mahendran (48), and Sampathkumar (47) — each are from Salem. Other workers rushed the injured men to a backstage hospital, wherever they were admitted arsenic inpatients. Hospital sources said each 5 are undergoing attraction and their information is stable.
Authorities are examining the circumstances starring to the accident, including whether information norms and load limits were decently followed astatine the site.
