Man unconscious after being struck by wooden plank in Langham Place mall in Hong Kong

A worker was knocked unconscious after being hit by a wooden plank in one of Hong Kong’s busiest shopping malls on Monday.

The 36-year-old man was among four workers moving the plank from the ground floor to the basement of Langham Place shopping mall on Argyle Street in Mong Kok just before 11.30am, police said.

“As they were taking an escalator to the basement, the plank hit the ceiling and fell on one of the workers,” a police source said.

The man was knocked unconscious and trapped under the plank, which measured 2.6 metres by 2.3 metres.

It was removed before emergency personnel arrived.