2 Metro Rail Workers Slightly Hurt in Mishap
Two workers on the underground Metro Rail project were slightly injured Wednesday when a rubber cement chute broke and hit them, officials said.
The workers were under the 5th and Hill streets station in downtown Los Angeles when the accident occurred. They were carried by a small wagon on a temporary track to an access tunnel at Alameda and Los Angeles streets to be lifted out and treated, Rapid Transit District spokeswoman Andrea Greene said.
Neither of the workers, who were employed by an independent contractor, was immediately identified.
One apparently suffered minor shoulder injuries. Information about the other was not immediately available, but Greene and fire officials said neither was seriously hurt.
The men were standing near the rubber pipe as air was being pumped through it to clean it, when the pipe “whipped back and hit them,” Greene said.
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