30.03.2023

Alive thanks to his harness

A man was thrown out of the platform he was working from on Tuesday, after his truck mounted lift was clipped by a passing box van.

The man, an employee of a utility company, was thankfully wearing a harness with the lanyard clipped on, which may well have saved his life. The incident occurred while he was working on traffic lights at a cross roads in Jefferson Township on the south west edge of Dayton, Ohio.

The van/truck was traveling through the intersection when it struck the bottom of the basket/bucket, creating a catapult effect which ejected the man leaving him dangling in the air.
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By the time the emergency services arrived the man had been lowered to the ground and was sitting in his truck. He was taken to the hospital for a check-up and to look into a minor back pain. The fire department and county sheriff are investigating the incident.