Worker knocked out in fall outside Closter temple

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A worker was hospitalized after falling seven feet from scaffolding outside a Closter temple this morning, authorities said.

Photo Credit: *Cliffview Pilot File Photo*

Jerry DeMarco

02/10/2015 4:23 p.m.

The 52-year-old Greenlawn, NY man was moved by a co-worker after falling and losing consciousness outside Temple EmanuEl on Piermont Road just before 10 a.m., Police Chief Dennis Kaine told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

Closter police sercured him for Closter First Aid and Paramedics arrived, who took the victim to Hackensack University Medical Center with injuries to his head, back and ribs, the chief said.

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