Like I said earlier, this is the third fatal accident on a Grocon site in the space of 20 months. There's something very, very wrong with their operational procedures.

Autumn around there it gets clusterfuckingly cold, the wind really whips through the buildings and with the foundations there being compromised by excavation it's no real surprise that the wall collapsed.

The fact that they didn't have some kind of fence around the construction site there is ridiculous though.

That's strange .grocon should've known better since they been in the news before about deaths at their work sites . What's going on at grocon ? Sadly the media and grocon have been using the unions for personal gain

Autumn around there it gets clusterfuckingly cold, the wind really whips through the buildings and with the foundations there being compromised by excavation it's no real surprise that the wall collapsed.

The fact that they didn't have some kind of fence around the construction site there is ridiculous though.

Is there a proper investigation? There should be people held accountable for lazinessresulting in peoples deaths.

Was heavy plant or vibrational equipment getting used to dig a trench or a footing near the wall or something of the sort?

It's not always practical or cost effective to use steel.

Sometimes steel cannot be used due to the aggressivity of the soil (high in chloride).

Why was the wall only held by wooden posts ? Why wasn't the metal posts used ????

The work they were doing there would have compromised the structural integrity, a gust of wind could have just sent the whole thing crashing down.

Any news on why the wall collapsed yet? Adjacent to a construction site there are several possibilities as to how it could fall.

A teenage girl is fighting for life in hospital following the collapse of a heritage-protected brick wall in Carlton on Thursday afternoon which killed two people.

The wall at the old Carlton & United Breweries site on the edge of the CBD in Carlton collapsed during gusty winds soon after 3pm.

Victoria Police has confirmed the deceased male was a 19-year-old from Montmorency. The deceased woman was aged in her 30s. The teenage girl, who suffered life-threatening injuries and remains in a critical condition in the Royal Melbourne Hospital is an 18-year-old, also from Montmorency.
Tribute ... Flowers, left the morning after, lay at the site of the wall collapse.

Tribute ... Flowers, left the morning after, lay at the site of the wall collapse.

WorkSafe and police are investigating the incident. The red brick wall, about 2.4 metres high, toppled onto the footpath on the western side of Swanston street. The collapsed segment was about 15 metres long.

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Locals walking past the site on Friday morning expressed their shock.

One, Aruna Prasad, left a teddy bear and chocolate carrot in honour of the victims.
People rush to the scene of the wall collapse.

People rush to the scene of the wall collapse. Photo: Broede Carmody and Jonathan Lian via Twitter

''It just bought tears to my eyes because I'm a mother and a grandmother and I pass this way to go to the market all the time ... and it just hurt me because they are all young people,’’ she said. ‘‘It's very sad.’’

Others left flowers.

Several residents described it as an accident waiting to happen.
Before the collapse... the wall on the corner of Swanston Street and Cornell Place.

Before the collapse... the wall on the corner of Swanston Street and Cornell Place. Photo: Google Street View

Fitzroy resident Peter Coyle said he could not believe what had happened.

''This place looks like Uluru,'' he said of the red dust that now covers the footpath where the brick wall crumbled to the ground.

Police are appealing for any witnesses who saw the incident, or who were injured when the wall collapsed, to come forward.
People rush to the scene of the wall collapse. Click for more photos
Brick wall collapse

People rush to the scene of the wall collapse. Photo: Broede Carmody and Jonathan Lian

People rush to the scene of the wall collapse.
Firemen and workers frantically remove bricks.
Firemen and workers frantically remove bricks.
Firemen and workers frantically remove bricks.
Firemen and workers frantically remove bricks.
The accident on the corner of Swanston Street and Cornell Place, Carlton.
Police take statements from those at the scene.
Officals at the scene.

Police believe several other people suffered injuries but left the scene before speaking to authorities.

‘‘Our advice from the fire brigade is that there were other people injured but those people have left the scene through fear of remaining... in that they weren’t entirely sure what the incident was, whether it was a wall collapsing or something on a larger scale,’’ said Detective Senior Constable Brooke Manley from the Melbourne North Crime Investigation Unit.

‘‘So they’ve cleared the area and we haven’t been able to identify those people.’’

She said other witnesses may be able to provide further information or footage documenting what occurred.

‘‘Other witnesses may have seen something else or be further able to assist us with not only witness accounts, but in this day and age with a lot of mobile phone devices and things like that, possibly footage,’’ she said.

Detective Manley described the incident as ‘‘horrendous’’ and said Victoria Police was working with WorkSafe to prepare a report for the coroner.

‘‘It’s an unfortunate very tragic accident that’s occurred on the eve of a long weekend. The families involved are devastated,’’ she said.

She said the families of the victims had now been notified, but the bodies had not yet been formally identified.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/two-killed-one-critically-injured-in-wall-collapse-20130329-2gxyw.html#ixzz2Ou9hGUx9