Steel pipe falls, injures 3 Qld workers

Three workers are lucky to be alive after a steel pipe weighing more than three tonnes fell from a wall, trapping one.

The men were working in the lower carpark area of the Jewel high rise site at Surfers Paradise on Wednesday morning when the steel pipe containing electrical cables fell from a height of three metres.

A 27-year-old man was trapped for a short time before his co-workers freed him.

He has been taken to hospital with a fractured pelvis.

Two 28-year-old men were also taken to hospital in a stable condition with leg, shoulder and neck injuries.

Queensland Ambulance Service Senior Operations Supervisor Gavin Fuller said the men were lucky to be alive, as the pipe weighed around 3.6 tonnes.

"They were very lucky when you get down there and have a look at the confined space they were in and you actually see the piece of gear that's fallen from the wall onto them."