Occupational Health and Safety is investigating after a man working on construction of the southeast ring road was crushed between a crane and a truck and sent to hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Paramedics and OH&S say the man was helping to take apart a crane and lowering a boom onto a flatbed of a tractor-trailer unit. The boom shifted and pinned the worker between the crane and truck.
“It was a very large piece of crane machinery that trapped the patient,” said EMS spokesman Stuart Brideaux.
Paramedics rushed the man in serious, possibly life-threatening condition to the Foothills Medical Centre after a difficult extrication.
Emergency crews were called shortly before 2 p.m. to the site at the Marquis of Lorne Trail and 52nd Street S.E.
“Occupational Health and Safety has been notified,” said police duty inspector Paul Stacey.
Pam Sharpe, spokeswoman with OH&S, said the man is 26 years old and worked for Red Deer Piling.
He suffered injuries to his legs in the accident.
“A stop-work order has been issued,” she said.
Investigators will review how the accident happened.
Source: Stephane Massinon, Calgary Herald