Messy workmates save builder's life
October 1st 2008 A builder is believed to have survived a six-storey fall down a lift shaft because his workmates had been using it as a rubbish chute, reports ananova.
Doctors in Podgorica, Montenegro, have said they think a heap of cardboard packaging and plastic at the bottom of the lift shaft cushioned 45-year-old Branislav Gomilic's fall and saved his life.
"One minute he was talking to us, the next he had disappeared down the lift shaft," said one co-worker on the site.
The ten-storey-building in the country's capital is currently under construction and the elevator has yet not been fitted in, leaving the shaft open and unused.
"The doctors told Branislav he wouldn't be with us any more if he and his workmates hadn't been so untidy. If they had put all their rubbish in the recycling skips he'd be dead," a family friend was reported to have said.
Mr Gomlic broke his arm in the fall but is expected to make a full recovery.
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