‘Boiling up for weeks’: Mass brawl erupts between Sydney tradies

An alleged feud between tradies at a building site in Sydney’s north-west has erupted into violence, with police launching an investigation into the large brawl.

About 7am on Tuesday tradies across the city were already at work, but at a Meriton building site in Castle Hill, tensions between two groups of workers were boiling over.

Footage obtained by Nine News shows a group of about 20 tradies tussling on Sexton Avenue, when one man takes off his hard hat and throws it at another, escalating the conflict.

Punches and kicks are thrown as the brawl spreads down the street. Some of the tradies begin using their hard hats as weapons, with a man in yellow high-vis repeatedly hitting another over the head.

A witness to the incident, a courier named Max, said tradies at the scene told him “tension has been boiling up for weeks”.

“They’ve been getting angrier and angrier,” he told 2GB’s Mark Levy.

It’s not known what sparked the violence.

Emergency services were called to the scene, but by the time police arrived, most of the tradies involved in the brawl had dispersed.

Ambulances treated two males aged 42 and 55 for minor injuries, and transported the pair to Westmead Hospital.