A young mother who, in the midst of a psychotic state fell to her death from an Ipswich crane, could still be alive if the warning signs had been recognised and treated, a coroner has found.

Mother-of-two Melina Maree Cuttler died in February 2013 after she fell from a crane she had climbed near Ipswich Hospital.

A coroner has found that an Ipswich woman's death could have been prevented if certain hospital procedures had been implemented. Credit:Joseph Feil

A sister and a friend had accompanied Ms Cuttler, 29, to the hospital's emergency department about 1pm.

By 3pm, a nurse had assessed Ms Cuttler as "almost certainly psychotic" and requested an evaluation by a psychiatric registrar, an evaluation that never took place.