It is understood the workers were struck by falling bricks.

Two workers involved in the demolition of a housing estate dubbed Scotland’s ‘Chernobyl’ are in hospital following an incident. The male employees were injured due to “falling masonry” at the Clune Park estate in Port Glasgow at 3pm on May 2.

Police were called to the site on Friday.

It is understood the workers were struck by falling bricks.

The incident has been reported to the Health and Safety Executive who will carry out a full investigation.

It comes days after work began to level the abandoned ghost town.

A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “Around 3pm on Friday, May 2, police received a report two male employees were injured due to falling masonry at a demolition site in Montgomerie Street, Port Glasgow.

“The men have been taken to hospital. The matter has been referred to the Health and Safety Executive.”

Wrecking machines started knocking down the Clune Park estate just two days ago after the buildings were deemed to be dangerous.

The estate had become a hotspot for urban explorers, photographers and others over recent years due to it resembling a post-apocalyptic film.

This forced Inverclyde Council to warn the area was dangerous and increase security around it. The buildings are now being ploughed down – starting with a derelict church.

Clune Park was built in 1905 and is made up of 430 flats in crumbling tenement buildings as well as an abandoned church. They are covered in graffiti and litter.

Residents fled from the estate in 1997 which has been left a ghost town for decades with just a handful of residents still living there. On Thursday workers could be seen knocking down the empty church building.

The rotting building had been deemed to be structurally unsafe. A school within the area was gutted by fire in 2023, leaving it beyond repair

The Clune Park Regeneration Plan aims to demolish all 45 original buildings within the estate and build new housing units in their place.

Inverclyde Council had announced last month that contractors had moved onsite with the view of knocking down the school and church buildings.

An initial 138 properties over 15 tenement blocks will be knocked down in the first phase of demolition.

The Council has warned people to stay away from the area while the demolition work is ongoing, telling them to “take heed of the safety warnings during demolition phases”.

In November 2023, the council approved new plans for the area, which sees up to 165 new, affordable homes for social rent being built after the demolition.

The city of Pripyat, in the Soviet Union, was abandoned in 1986 after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Inverclyde Council and contractors Caskie Ltd have also been approached for comment.