Three oil rig workers narrowly avoided being crushed when a 200-tonne platform began swinging out of control as it was lifted by a crane.
The offshore technicians were dismantling a Santos oil rig off Varanus Island on the Western Australian coast on July 5 when disaster suddenly struck.
Horrifying footage shows the workers scramble to get out of the way of the huge platform as it unexpectedly separated from its steel column.
Horrifying footage shows the workers scramble to get out of the way as the huge platform as it unexpectedly separated from its steel column
As the giant platform starts to rock back and forth, metal cables flail and snap, narrowly missing the high-vis wearing workers underneath.
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