Construction workers hospitalized after Wood-Ridge roof fall

YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: Two construction workers were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center — one with a head injury and the other with a leg and ankle injury, as well as cuts on his chest and back — after both fell nearly 15 feet through the roof of Wood-Ridge building this morning.

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Jerry DeMarco

07/28/2014 6:24 p.m.

Both were using sledgehammers to bust up a section of roof atop the building at 1 Passaic Street when it gave way, Police Chief Joseph Rutigliano said.

Moonachie’s First Aid/Rescue Squad treated them on the roof, then took the workers to HUMC after the Moonachie Fire Department brought them down with a ladder around 11:15 a.m., less than 20 minutes after the fall.

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