Crane operator lucky to be alive

Saturday 29th August 2009, 2:59PM BST.

The lorry rolled over in a building site in Grouville yesterday.

A CRANE operator was lucky to be alive today after suffering horrific leg injuries in a freak building site accident.

The 33-year-old was left with a partially severed foot and a deep cut to his knee when the lorry he was working on toppled over yesterday afternoon.

Ambulance Service station officer paramedic Richard d’Ulivo-Rogers said: ‘If he had fallen differently and had become caught underneath the machinery he would have suffered much more serious injuries, and it could have been fatal.’

The man was operating a small crane on the back of a lorry at the site on Rue au T’chian in Grouville shortly before 2 pm yesterday when the vehicle rolled over.

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