Driver Injured In Old City Crane Accident
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A truck driver unloading a skid of bricks near 4th and Market Streets escaped with minor injuries after a trash truck sideswiped his truck's unloading boom.
The accident happened at 8:25 a.m. in front of the new American Jewish Museum. As the boom of the truck's unloading crane swung out and over Market Street, a passing trash truck swiped the arm of the crane's boom, which was in the process of lowering a skid of bricks to the sidewalk. As a result of the impact from the sideswipe, the crane's fork struck the driver and pushed him into a security fence around the site, temporarily knocking him out.
Paramedics from Philadelphia Fire Department's Medic 1 quickly accessed the driver and determined he had what appeared to be a minor head wound. They rushed him, in stable condition, to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.
Reported by Al Novack, KYW Newsradio
