Queensland construction workers will stage a “safety walk” today after a foreman was crushed by a formwork shutter at a building site at the University of Queensland’s St Lucia campus on monday.

The man died when the shutter fell on him from a crane some 20 to 30 metres above him.

The building was to be the University’s new Learning Innovation Centre. The man was working for a formwork company called BosForm when the incident occured.

Police remain at the scene, and workplace health and safety personnel are on site.

This is the twelfth death on Queensland construction sites this year – an alarming figure, and more than last year, when eight people lost their lives on the state’s building sites.

Members of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) will tomorrow walk off every major project in south-east Queensland, and possibly the entire state, the Courier Mail reports.

CFMEU Queensland workplace health and safety coordinator Andrew Ramsay said the “safety walk” would take place because the situation at construction sites was “just getting out of control” the report stated.

Senior deputy vice-chancellor Professor Michael Keniger expressed the University’s sympathy to the family and colleagues of the worker.

A UQ spokeswoman said the University had provided access to counsellors for the construction workers and other staff affected by the incident.

The Queensland division of Workplace Health and Safety and Queensland Police are investigating the matter.