MIAMI, FL—Officials from the
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) are expected to investigate an
industrial accident that sent a
construction worker to the hospital with
critical injuries last week. According to information provided by the Sun Sentinel, the
injured worker was transported to
Memorial Regional Hospital following the
on-the-job accident—which occurred near the Florida East Coast Railway tracks at Dixie Highway and McKinley Street in
Hollywood.At approximately 1:10 p.m. on Jan. 23, a construction worker employed by the
Bradshaw Construction Corporation became
trapped in wet concrete while in the midst of preparing a tunnel beneath the Florida East Coast Railway tracks at McKinley St. and Dixie Hwy. in Hollywood, Fla.
Reports indicated the 31-year-old worker was pouring concrete while lying across a board inside a hole at the job site when something went horribly wrong. For unknown reasons, the board the employee was lying on lifted up and consequently
pinned him inside the concrete-filled hole.
Members of the construction crew apparently managed to free the trapped construction worker prior to the arrival of
Hollywood Police officials and
Hollywood Fire Rescue personnel. The
injured worker was subsequently transported to Memorial Regional Hospital as a
trauma alert. The victim reportedly suffered unspecified critical injuries in the
South Florida industrial accident. The
workplace accident victim was said to be a member of a construction crew hired for the installation of a sewer pipeline at McKinley Street--which will extend from Hollywood’s Southern Regional Wastewater treatment plant (located on Taft Street) to 24th Avenue upon being completed. The project was initiated in Aug. 2010.
Officials from the
Hollywood Police Department and
OSHA are expected to conduct a full probe into the
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