Excavator operator walks away unharmed from fallen excavator.
Ron Marsh, the owner of Dixonville-based Marsh Contracting, has walked away unharmed from an accident that saw the excavator he was driving fall into an underground vault. The incident required the assistance of local firefighters who assisted in the rescue of Marsh and who also oversaw the preservation of overhead power lines that were in danger of being brought down my the excavator’s raised boom.
“If (the machine) had kept going, it would have come down on Miller Avenue and taken out every pole from there to Yellow Creek Street in a domino effect,” said Assistant Fire Chief Joe Iezzi of the Homer City fire company.
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