Two workers fall to death inside wind turbine in Germany

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2026-02-25

Frankfurt (dpa) - Two workers have died after falling from a height inside a wind turbine in western Germany, police said on Wednesday. Police said the two 32-year-old men were in a work basket that fell from the upper part of a wind turbine in Birstein, north-east of Frankfurt on Wednesday morning. It was initially unclear why the work basket fell. Other workers heard the incident and called an ambulance, but rescue services were unable to sav......

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