Teaneck Worker Suffers Leg Injury At New Housing Development Site: PD

TEANECK, NJ — A Teaneck construction worker was hospitalized after a metal beam fell on and fractured his right lower leg, according to authorities.

At about 1:10 p.m. Monday, the 23-year-old was walking at the Teaneck Road site between two I-beams, when one "tipped over" into his leg, causing a compound fracture to his leg near the ankle, police chief Andrew McGurr said.

Other workers at or near the new senior housing development were able to move the beam, by hand, off of the injured worker's leg, and he was then taken to a local hospital for treatment, McGurr said.