http://www.jwbrothers.org/videos/2451/crane-acident-at-kingdom-hall-construction.
Description: VICTORIA - A crane operator is in the hospital in Victoria tonight,
alive but badly injured after an accident on a construction
site.
He was impaled on a piece of rebar.
It started with a
frightening fall when his crane tipped over.
He spent a tense and
dangerous afternoon trapped waiting for rescue.
For nearly three
hours, Victoria fire crews worked feverishly to get him to safety,
finally cutting him free with the steel rod still in him.
It
happened just after 1 pm. The Victoria Fire Department was on site
within minutes.
But the job was daunting. How do you extricate
someone whos been impaled on rods of steel -- stuck in the cage of a
massive piece of heavy equipment -- which is now laying on its side
in a gaping hole? Very carefully.
The injured crane operator man
is licensed and certified.
He was volunteering his time in the
construction of a new Jehovahs Witness Kingdom Hall.
Worksafe BC
and the Victoria Police Department are investigating
