Employee Crushed Beneath Pallet Containing Hundreds Of Pounds Of Glass

EAST LAKE, FL — A man was taken by helicopter to a trauma center Thursday afternoon after being crushed beneath a pallet of commercial glass weighing hundreds of pounds.

At 2:33 p.m., East Lake Fire Rescue crews were called to a business off Keystone where a pallet of commercial glass had fallen on an employee.

Rescue workers extricated the employee from beneath the pallet and then shut down both east and west lanes of Keystone Road between East Lake Road and U.S. 19 to provide an air ambulance landing zone.

The condition of the employee is unknown at this time.