A young man is in hospital after falling from a Melbourne CBD theatre.
The worker was working on top of the awning above the front of Her Majesty’s Theatre on Exhibition St when he fell through it and on to the footpath below.
Ambulance Victoria spokesman Paul Bentley said the man suffered back and arm injuries.
The man was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a stable condition.
A WorkSafe Victoria spokesman said the safety watchdog was aware of the incident and making inquiries.

Four building workers involved in a dramatic construction pit collapse in Mount Waverley last year will face disciplinary action and could be slapped with huge fines or have their registration cancelled.
Last July, surrounding homes were left teetering over a giant, 15-metre-deep pit when excavation work at 170-174 Highbury Road collapsed.
About a dozen residents, mainly foreign students, were forced to evacuate.
After initial landslips were reported in mid-July, the pit’s walls continued to crumble, taking with them a portable toilet, fencing, a wheelie bin and the backyard of an adjoining townhouse.
Four of the building practitioners involved have been subject to a lengthy investigation by the Victorian Building Authority (VBA).
Those involved are building surveyor Anastasios Galanos, civil engineers Aldo Ditonto and Thewarathanthrige Fernando, and builder Dimitrios Nicolaou.
Mr Galanos has also been reprimanded by the building authority for signing off on the Lacrosse tower at Docklands, which was ravaged by a fierce cladding fire in 2014.
His case is to be considered by the Building Practitioners Board.
On Friday, the VBA said the investigation into the Mount Waverly pit collapse “found evidence to support multiple allegations against each of the four practitioners involved in the excavation work at the site”.
The building authority said that each of the men committed multiple breaches of the Act and the Building Regulations 2006, and “failed to perform the duties as a registered building practitioner in a competent manner and to a professional standard”.
The four will now face an inquiry at the Building Practitioners Board, an independent statutory authority.

The grieving families of the teenage siblings and a French woman killed in the disastrous Swanston Street wall collapse have withdrawn their claims for compensation from builder Grocon.
Six family members had made applications for compensation over the deaths of Alexander Jones, 19, his sister Bridget, 18 and visiting academic Marie-Faith Fiawoo, who were crushed and killed when Grocon’s wall collapsed onto the footpath in central Melbourne three years ago.
The 15-metre wall was situated on the Swanston Street boundary of a large Grocon-owned construction project at the former Carlton and United Breweries site.
Inner Melbourne was hit by freak winds around the time the brick wall collapsed.
Bureau of Meteorology data showed a gust of wind just before 3pm – the estimated time of the collapse – at 102 km/h. The average wind speed for a 10-minute period at 3pm was 83 km/h, regarded by the bureau as a wind strong enough to dislodge roofing from homes and limbs from trees.
In Melbourne Magistrates Court on Monday, lawyers for the Jones and Fiawoo families withdrew their applications for compensation.
A settlement between Grocon and the family members will be agreed this week and is expected to bring the case to a close. The amount of compensation to the Jones and Fiawoo family members is not known.
Grocon had initially signalled to the court a willingness to contest the legal basis of the compensation claims in a two-day hearing scheduled for August.
Magistrate Charlie Rozencwajg had urged the parties to reach a resolution to avoid litigation. “That would be of a great benefit to everyone,” he said at the time.
The students’ parents, Ian and Sue Jones, and four members of the Fiawoo family were seeking compensation under the Sentencing Act.
Documents provided to the court said the victims’ families have suffered grief, distress and trauma “as a direct result” of Grocon’s offending.
The imminent settlement comes after Grocon was convicted and fined $250,000 – less than a quarter of the maximum available penalty – for safety failings contributing to the risk of the freestanding wall and hoarding being pulled down in strong winds. WorkSafe prosecutors running the 2014 criminal case against Grocon were unable to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the company’s breaches caused the wall to fall.
Under the state’s Sentencing Act, a court can make orders for an offender to pay compensation for pain and suffering, counselling services and other medical expenses.