CALGARY – Alberta Occupational Health & Safety is investigating after a worker was critically injured on the job Tuesday, in the deep southeast Calgary community of Cranston.
“We determined that a male patient in his early 30s had sustained a severe head injury after being struck by some apparatus or machinery they were manipulating while doing some underground utility work,” said Stuart Brideaux, with AHS EMS.
EMS responded to an alley in the 100 block of Cranberry Square S.E. at around 11:15 a.m.
Police escorted the ambulance as it raced the worker to Foothills Hospital with a life-threatening head injury.
He is an employee of a private contractor called Insituform Technologies, which was working on some underground lines in the alley.
The victim was above ground when the accident happened.
A neighbour says the Insituform crew had been working in the alley for a day or two.
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