A QUADRIPLEGIC man injured at the Queensland AC/DC concert has lost sight in his right eye after being catapulted off a podium when his mate accidentally hit the joystick of his motorised wheelchair.
The Courier-Mail reports Terry Watson, 31, of Morningside stabbed himself in the face with a metal manipulator prong as his wheelchair crashed more than a metre into the mosh pit at the Queensland Sport and Athletic Centre on Saturday night.
Wayne Watson, his father, said "all was going well'', at the hospital and his son had forgiven his mate's carelessness.
But the father was upset QSAC did not place a proper barrier in front of the concert wheelchair section.
"If there had been a rail there, he wouldn't have gone over the side,'' he said.
Photos obtained by The Courier-Mail show that the podium had side and rear barriers but the only front barrier was a strip of floor timber and plastic caution tape.
Workplace Health and Safety officials were investigating yesterday.
Mr Watson said his son, a former truck driver paralysed four years ago in a vehicle accident, did not turn off his wheelchair motor because he needed to continually shift his chair because of his disability.
An automatic brake was not set when the motor was being used, he said.
The band was nearing the end of their concert when the freak accident happened.
"He was loving it,'' his father said.
The Courier-Mail reports Terry Watson, 31, of Morningside stabbed himself in the face with a metal manipulator prong as his wheelchair crashed more than a metre into the mosh pit at the Queensland Sport and Athletic Centre on Saturday night.
Wayne Watson, his father, said "all was going well'', at the hospital and his son had forgiven his mate's carelessness.
But the father was upset QSAC did not place a proper barrier in front of the concert wheelchair section.
"If there had been a rail there, he wouldn't have gone over the side,'' he said.
Photos obtained by The Courier-Mail show that the podium had side and rear barriers but the only front barrier was a strip of floor timber and plastic caution tape.
Workplace Health and Safety officials were investigating yesterday.
Mr Watson said his son, a former truck driver paralysed four years ago in a vehicle accident, did not turn off his wheelchair motor because he needed to continually shift his chair because of his disability.
An automatic brake was not set when the motor was being used, he said.
The band was nearing the end of their concert when the freak accident happened.
"He was loving it,'' his father said.
