3 construction workers killed, 2 seriously hurt in 4 accidents within 5 hours

Three construction workers are killed in the space of five hours today at three separate building sites.

A 25-year-old man is killed when a steel beam on which several workers were sitting collapses and falls on him in a site on Silver Street in the northern city of Nahariya.

A second worker, a 29-year-old man, is hospitalized in serious condition.

Earlier in the day, a 40-year-old man was killed when he fell from a high floor in a construction site in Rosh Ha’ayin, while another 40-year-old was hit by a truck he was directing at a building site north of Tel Aviv.

Another construction worker is seriously hurt after being electrocuted at a building site in Beitar Illit southwest of Jerusalem. He is hospitalized at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem with burns covering parts of his upper torso.