Pleasants County, WV — A local man in Pleasants County was injured near Belmont (which is near the Ohio River at the WV-OH state line) this past Wednesday after a serious accident with his excavator.
Not many details about what happened have been released, but this happened sometime in the evening hours of Wednesday, May 13, 2015. Police said that a man was working with an excavator that night when the machine started to roll down a hill, which injured the worker in the process.
He had to be taken to a hospital via medical helicopter, but his condition hasn’t been updated yet. No names have been released either. The man was apparently trapped in the overturned excavator for about 1 hour that evening.
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Map of Belmont, West Virginia
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