Windy weather wounds man

AMBULANCE Victoria paramedics treated a man who was injured on a building site in windy weather in Dandenong South on Tuesday afternoon.
Advanced life support paramedics from Dandenong and a single responder intensive care paramedic were called to a building site just after midday.
Advanced life support paramedic Fida Masri said they arrived within nine minutes to find a 46-year-old man suffering a cut to the forehead.
“The man told us he was working on the site when a gust of wind blew a piece of roofing metal from a trailer,” she said.
“The roofing blew up into the air, and struck the man, knocking him to the ground.”
She said the man was incredibly lucky.
“The roofing was about 15 metres long and three metres wide and weighed several hundred kilograms,” she said.
“He is fortunate he wasn’t killed in the mishap.”