A WORKER was killed on a Merseyside industrial estate when metal sheets fell from a crane and crushed him

The 41-year-old Merseyside man died as he was working in a factory on Kirkby Industrial Estate.

Another man, also in his forties, was last night in a serious condition at Fazakerley Hospital, though his injuries were not thought to be life-threatening.

He was able to talk to paramedics as he was taken away from the scene.

The Health and Safety Executive were last night investigating the incident at Stackright, which manufactures steel anti-vandal accommodation.

Officers are trying to find out how the metal sheets fell from an overhead crane and on to the two workers.

Yesterday, the area around Charleywood Road was cordoned off as police interviewed witnesses.

Investigations will continue today.

A HSE spokeswoman said the incident was of a different nature to the three other crane death accidents that have occurred in Merseyside in the last year.

She said: “There have been a number of incidents, which would seem large, but there is a lot of building work taking place in Liverpool at the moment, and therefore more incidents.

“But the Kirkby incident is not like the others that have been reported. This occurred in a factory, and involved something falling from the overhead crane.”