Worker Injured at Construction Site
A construction worker suffered a broken left arm Monday when several tons of metal piping fell off a flatbed truck and struck him at a construction site at Holy Cross School in Ventura, officials said.
Rafegio Barrios, 36, was being treated at Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura after the 1:20 p.m. incident at 21 E. Main St., behind the San Buenaventura Mission, fire officials said. In addition to his broken arm, he injured both forearms, a nursing supervisor said.
Barrios was standing on the piping--35-foot caissons that had been used to drill long underground holes--when the load shifted and swept him under the truck, said Ventura City Fire Capt. Myles Smith.
“He was on top of the caissons and they were in the process of securing it with chains when it shifted. It’s like piling a pyramid of round things and having the bottom slip out,” Smith said.
The piping didn’t roll under the truck, so firefighters were able to remove Barrios from underneath the passenger side, Smith said.
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