A Pakistani worker sustained serious injuries when he fell from a 12-meter high scaffolding while engaged in work on the Shamia side of the Grand Mosque Expansion project in Makkah.

The worker was standing on a scaffolding near a huge crane and lost balance due to sudden motion, losing his grip of the pole in the process. “The man was brought to the hospital unconscious,” Jama Al-Khayyat, PR director at the Makkah Medical Center, said in a statement to Al-Sabaq online daily.

Dr. Abdullah Mujib, the doctor on duty at the emergency ward, said a team of doctors examined the accident victim and that detailed tests were being conducted. The worker is out of danger, he said.