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Worker injured by falling slab in South Yarmouth
Ethan Genter
SOUTH YARMOUTH A worker was flown to an off-Cape hospital Monday after a concrete slab fell on him at a home construction site on Cranberry Lane.
At about 11:25 a.m., rescuers responded to 235 Cranberry Lane, where the 4,000-pound slab had fallen on his chest, breaking several of his bones, said Yarmouth Fire Chief Philip Simonian.
The other workers at the construction site were able to use a pry bar to lift the slab enough to drag him out from underneath it, Simoniansaid. Fire and police officers used ladders to get him out of the hole he was working in.
SOUTH YARMOUTH A man suffered possible life-threatening injuries Friday morning when the dump truck he was driving went off a Route 6 overpass and landed on the railroad tracks below.
State police said the truck was reported stolen by a local pool company. Police said the 36-year-old West Yarmouth man who was driving the vehicle likely faces theft and traffic-related charges.
At about 6 a.m., rescuers responded to the area near Exit 8 on the westbound side of the highway after the medium-sized truck belonging to the pool company crashed, Yarmouth fire Chief Philip Simonian said.
The remote location of the crash made getting to the truck difficult.