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: Construction Worker Impaled At NJ Construction Site, Dangles In Air
A construction worker’s life literally hung in the balance after he fell through an upper-floor opening at a Paterson construction site and was impaled by a length of rebar. City firefighters needed a truck with a 75-foot ladder to get to the 7th floor and then free the 43-year-old worker from two steel reinforcing rods on Saturday, Dec. 10, responders said. The rods went through his chest and hip, miraculously missing vital organs and leaving him suspended in the air, they said. The worker was conscious and alert as his rescuers carefully lowered him to the ground from the seventh floor …