Bellevue Hill tradies brawl on Old South Head Road in Sydney's eastern suburbs ... trends now
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A building site boss has relived the harrowing moment he watched two tradies brawl on a rooftop before one plummeted headfirst to the ground.
A shirtless 44-year-old man was caught on video as he plunged backwards almost 5m from the roof as he apparently tried to get away from a worker in a hi-vis top.
'It was very bad,' said John, the site supervisor at a nearby unrelated construction site. 'There was blood coming from his mouth and he was unconscious.
'He came to after a while but he was disorientated and didn't know where he was or what had happened. He didn't know why he had fallen.
'It was awful to see.'
A 44-year-old man fell from the roof of a house and was rushed to hospital with torso and shoulder injuries in a stable condition
A man was taken away from a construction site in Bellevue Hill on a stretcher after he fell four metres from the roof
The incident happened on Wednesday at a home in Sydney's ritzy eastern suburbs on upmarket Old South Head Road, close to the junction where beachside Bondi meets the mansions of Rose Bay and Bellevue Hill.
The fight broke out around midday on the first day of renovation work on the mid-century home's roof, just hours after the three tradies began stripping off tiles.
But a furious row erupted between the workmates which attracted the attention of the nearby neighbours and construction
