Supermarket accident closes Perth city centre

An engineer working on a lift in the Co-op was airlifted to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee

A man was airlifted to hospital after an industrial accident at a supermarket in Perth led to police shutting down a main route through the city.

Emergency services, including the air ambulance, closed Main Street in Bridgend following the incident in which an engineer is believed to have been injured while attending to a lift at the Co-op.

The accident happened at around 7.30am on Friday with witnesses saying they believed the casualty was injured towards the rear of the store.

The man was taken by air ambulance to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee.

Multiple sources told The Courier no customers or shop employees were hurt in the incident.

The road was closed by the emergency services during the morning rush hour as firefighters and the ambulance service attended to the stricken man.

One witness said: “I first saw them about 7.30am. The fire engines and the police started shooting through. They came over the bridge and pulled up outside the Co-op and then the air ambulance arrived.

“There will have been staff inside the

“Inquiries are ongoing and the Health and Safety Executive have been informed. POLICE SCOTLAND SPOKESPERSON

shop because it opens around 6am and they do baking and that in there.”

The road was reopened by 11am but shaken looking Co-op staff could be seen inside the shop, which remained taped off by police.

Yesterday afternoon a spokesperson for the Co-op said: “Sadly, there has been an industrial accident at our Bridgend, Perth, store. Emergency services are on scene and the store remains closed.”

Police Scotland confirmed that the injured man had been rushed to hospital following the incident.

A spokesperson said: “A man has been taken to hospital.

“Inquiries are ongoing and the Health and Safety Executive have been informed.”

A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokeswoman said: “We were alerted at 7.38am on Friday October 11 to reports of a casualty at a business premise in Main Street, Perth.

“Firefighters assisted in transferring the casualty to paramedics and have now left the scene.”

Picture: Stuart Cowper. Emergency services and the air ambulance arrived at the scene.