US (OH): Greenhouse worker trapped under irrigation boom
The employee, who told firefighters his name is Claudio Manuel, was operating a battery-operated tugger about 10 p.m. in one of the greenhouses when he struck an irrigation boom hanging from the ceiling.
The tugger, similar to a golf cart, is used to pull machinery and the irrigation boom is a frame work from which sprayers soak the plants, said Jeff Linn, assistant fire chief in Camden Township.
“For whatever reason he ran into (the irrigation boom) and the momentum of the tug basically carried him underneath it, so he was trapped between the tug and the sprayer,” Linn said.
Because of the pesticides used on the plants, emergency responders had to ventilate the greenhouse before Manuel could be rescued.
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