Crime & Safety
UPDATE: Man Rescued from Beneath Steal Piping Walked From the Hospital with Bruises and a Cut
Dixon Patch brought you details Thursday of the Vacaville man pinned under a bundle of steel piping. Man walked out of the hospital less than 2 hours after being flown by air ambulance.
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A worker at the Valley Iron metal processing facility in Vacaville escaped serious injury when part of a large bundle of steel tubing slipped and pinned his leg on the ground.
The Vacaville Fire Department responded to the incident at Valley Iron at 791 Elmira Road around 5 p.m. Thursday, city of Vacaville spokesman Mark Mazzaferro said. It took firefighters 51 minutes to free the worker.
Lee Anne Briscoe, one of the mangers of the family-owned business, said the worker, who she would not identify, suffered a bruise and a cut on his leg, was treated at a hospital and intends to return to work Monday, Briscoe said.
She said the square, 1.5-inch steel tubing slipped out of a 2,000-pound bundle the man was moving with an overhead crane in the company's distribution warehouse. The tubing pinned the man's leg to the ground, Briscoe said.
Cal-OSHA spokesman Peter Melton said the worker was able to walk out of the hospital 90 minutes after he arrived. Melton said Cal-OSHA might not even investigate the incident.
Read the original Dixon Patch reporting story here.
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