Man in Demolition Accident Improving
A man injured at a Newbury Park demolition site earlier this week remained in good condition Saturday, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Curtis Tutor, 33, of Rosemead was still in the intensive care unit but was expected to be moved to a regular room soon, said spokeswoman Jane Misel of Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks.
“He’s certainly improving every single day,” she said. “He’s doing really great, all things considered.”
Tutor was struck in the head by a piece of falling concrete Thursday while working on an underground water storage tank. Although he was wearing protective clothing, Tutor lay in 5 feet of frigid water for 90 minutes before rescue crews could pull him out.
He underwent surgery later that afternoon for a depressed fracture of the skull and has been in intensive care since.
Tutor was part of a demolition crew working to break up an abandoned storage tank on the old Northrop Grumman Corp. site on Rancho Conejo Boulevard. Tutor’s employer, TEG/LVI Environmental Services of Rancho Dominguez, is cleaning the site to make way for an industrial park.
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