{"id":167520,"date":"2025-12-04T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/167520\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:00:07","slug":"kiwi-man-named-as-worker-killed-in-brisbane-wall-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/167520\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiwi man named as worker killed in Brisbane wall collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"

A worker who died after a retaining wall collapsed at a construction site<\/a> in Brisbane has been named as a New Zealand father. <\/p>\n

Kimura Dixon, 45, was killed and the 19-year-old son of his partner became trapped after the wall toppled on Tuesday morning while the pair were digging a shallow trench in Brisbane’s West End.<\/p>\n

The younger man was pulled from the rubble more than 90 minutes later before being taken to hospital with serious leg injuries.<\/p>\n

“Six of those workers removed concrete from the injured man, and in doing so probably saved his life,” Queensland Police Inspector Chris Pemberton said.<\/p>\n

He said the incident was a “tragic thing to have happened so close to Christmas”.<\/p>\n

A man was fatally crushed in the incident while another sustained serious leg injuries. (Source: Nine)<\/p>\n

An online fundraiser was set up by Dixon’s loved ones to bring his body home to New Zealand.<\/p>\n

“On Tuesday 2nd December there was a tragic accident that claimed the life of Katarina’s partner Kim. Her son was also injured but is okay,” it read.<\/p>\n

“While we all are processing this devastating news, I ask if use can please make a small donation to be able to fly Kim home to New Zealand so he can be laid to rest.<\/p>\n

“Kim was loved by so many and will be greatly missed. I ask that use all keep Kat, his family and friends in your thoughts.”<\/p>\n

Dixon’s death came one day after the death of a 15-year-old boy after he was struck by a falling object from a concrete pump truck on a construction site in Surfers Paradise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A worker who died after a retaining wall collapsed at a construction site in Brisbane has been named…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,85,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-167520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-australia","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}