Painter’s four-metre fall

A PAINTER landed face-first on concrete when he fell more than four metres from a ladder in Narre Warren North last week. Intensive care paramedic Bryan Chesson said the 60-year-old man was painting the façade of a double-storey house when the ladder slipped.
Paramedics from Hampton Park and Berwick were called when the man fell onto a porch about 2.30pm last Thursday.
“The man was in considerable pain from multiple head and facial injuries and a broken elbow when we arrived,” Mr Chesson said.
“We put a cervical collar around his neck and placed him on a spinal board because of the potential for spinal injuries.”
It was the fourth serious fall from a great height in three days.