Crime & Safety

Worker Pinned By Falling Steel Beam At Worcester Car Wash

Police said the 42-year-old man was welding a large steel beam, which was supported by two metal frames, when it dropped.

A worker was seriously hurt at a car wash in Worcester when a steel beam fell on him Wednesday morning.
A worker was seriously hurt at a car wash in Worcester when a steel beam fell on him Wednesday morning. (Neal McNamara/Patch)

WORCESTER, MA — A worker was seriously hurt at a car wash in Worcester when a steel beam fell on him Wednesday morning.

Police said the 42-year-old man was welding a large steel beam, which was supported by two metal frames, when it dropped, pinning him inside the Scrub a Dub car wash on Route 122.

Other workers quickly made a pulley system to get the beam off of him before an ambulance arrived.

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