Post by jonsdigs on Nov 13, 2008 18:08:34 GMT -5
Man falls 125 feet into collapsed cave
KDBC El Paso, TX
Associated Press
November 13, 2008
CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) - Authorities said a construction worker was driving a heavy loader when a natural cave collapsed, plunging man and machine 125 feet into a pit near the New MexicoTexas border.
The man was "slightly injured" in Wednesday's accident but didn't require hospitalization, Eddy County Sheriff's Capt. Leon Newman said. He didn't have details on the man's injury.
Witnesses told investigators the loader driver was working at a pit that provides crushed material for a construction project on U.S. Highway 62/180 when his machine broke through the earth.
The site is a mile north of the highway near Carlsbad Caverns National Park.
Story
KDBC El Paso, TX
Associated Press
November 13, 2008
CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) - Authorities said a construction worker was driving a heavy loader when a natural cave collapsed, plunging man and machine 125 feet into a pit near the New MexicoTexas border.
The man was "slightly injured" in Wednesday's accident but didn't require hospitalization, Eddy County Sheriff's Capt. Leon Newman said. He didn't have details on the man's injury.
Witnesses told investigators the loader driver was working at a pit that provides crushed material for a construction project on U.S. Highway 62/180 when his machine broke through the earth.
The site is a mile north of the highway near Carlsbad Caverns National Park.
Story
