Worker crushed by steel plates at Birkenhead remains critically ill A man who was crushed while removing steel gates from a shipping container at Birkenhead remains in a critical condition in hospital. A MAN crushed by metal fence panels in a workplace accident at Birkenhead last week remains in hospital in a critical condition. The man, 42, became trapped under the fence panels that fell on him while being removed from a shipping container at a Semaphore Rd business last Thursday. It took about 20 minutes for emergency crews to free the man and he was taken to the Royal Adelaide Hospital. A hospital spokesman said this morning that the man remained in a critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit.