Part of Worker’s Leg Cut Off in Subway Tunnel
A construction worker lost part of his right leg Saturday after it was caught in a cement mixer as he worked on a subway tunnel under Hollywood Boulevard, authorities said.
Greg Dobar, 30, of Sherman Oaks was in critical condition at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center after spending four hours in surgery. “They were not able to save the leg,” said hospital spokeswoman Adelaida De La Cerda.
Dobar was working in a Red Line tunnel 110 feet below the 4700 block of Hollywood Boulevard when the accident occurred. He was cleaning a large cement mixer about 8 a.m. when the machine was somehow turned on, said Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokeswoman Clara Potes-Fellow.
Mixing blades sliced through Dobar’s leg just above the knee, said Los Angeles City Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphries.
Dobar was conscious and talking but showing signs of shock as firefighters and MTA workers spent 20 minutes extricating him, Humphries said. Dobar was loaded onto a stretcher, hoisted from the tunnel by a crane and rushed to the hospital, where a trauma team attended to him.
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