A worker has been hospitalised after being struck in the face by a temporary wire fence which collapsed at the site of the main Commonwealth Games stadium.

The worker was injured when hundreds of metres of cyclone wire fencing outside Carrara Stadium collapsed on Monday afternoon when a nearby helicopter took off.

It's understood the stadium's perimeter fencing has only recently been put up and was unable to cope with the winds generated by the Westpac Rescue Helicopter's rotor blades.

The helicopter's hangar is located next to the stadium on Nerang Broadbeach Road where the fencing had been erected as part of traffic management for the Games.

"This massive section of the fence just came crashing down," an unnamed motorist told the Gold Coast Bulletin. "I'm not talking just a few metres -- I'm talking a couple of hundred metres.