Tag: dump truck

By Caleb Hutton

A man’s arm was possibly severed by the bed of a dump truck Friday afternoon, Jan. 25, Lynden police said.

He was driven by pickup to the Lynden fire station on Fourth Street at 12:15 p.m.

Man’s arm partly amputated. Got pinned under bed of dump truck. Driven to #Lynden fire station, 215 Fourth St. In & out of consciousness.

— Bellingham Crime (@bhamcrime) January 25, 2013

The man was wearing a jacket and, according to initial reports, he still had it on when he arrived at the station. So it wasn’t clear how bad the injury was. He was rushed away by ambulance.

Nobody picked up the phone at the fire department half an hour later, just before this was posted.

Police sent an officer to the fire station to look into the situation. Lynden Police Deputy Chief John Billester confirmed most of the information above, but didn’t know much else in the minutes that followed the 911 call.

This post will be updated.

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Update at 2:45 p.m. Here’s a draft of the story that will go online in a moment.

LYNDEN — A construction worker’s arm was possibly severed Friday afternoon, Jan. 25, when his limb got pinned beneath the bed of a dump truck near Lynden.

The man, in his late 20s, was doing dirt work at a construction site off of Double Ditch Road at about noon when his arm was crushed between the body and the bed of the truck, said Lynden Assistant Fire Chief Robert Spinner.

Coworkers with the local construction company rushed him in a pickup to the Lynden fire station at 215 Fourth St. He was loaded into an ambulance and taken to St. Joseph hospital.

Spinner wouldn’t speculate about whether the man’s life was in danger, but he said the injuries were “traumatic.” Citing health privacy laws, he declined to release the name of the man and the severity of his injuries. He also wouldn’t name the company.

Serious workplace accidents are investigated by the state Department of Labor & Industries.