Worker hurt when excavator topples in Royalston, Mass.
Tuesday Posted Aug 30, 2016 at 4:04 PM Updated Aug 30, 2016 at 4:39 PM
By Elaine Thompson
Telegram & Gazette Staff
ROYALSTON, MA – The operator of an excavator was taken to the hospital Tuesday after the equipment fell from a trailer on Turnpike Road.
State Trooper Paul Sullivan said the vehicle rolled onto its side as it was being loaded onto the trailer. The 61-year-old operator, whose name was not publicly released, was taken by ambulance to Heywood Hospital in Gardner with injuries that were not life-threatening, the trooper said.
He said representatives of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration declined to investigate because the accident “probably does not meet the standards for a basic investigation.”He said the company involved in the accident is Mirra Construction