Palestine Worker’s Injuries Not Life-Threatening
Posted/updated on: September 23, 2011 at 9:29 am
PALESTINE — Officials say a worker’s injuries are non-life-threatening after a bridge collapsed Wednesday in Palestine. It happened on North Loop 256 near East Lacy. Injured was Jose Luis Alva. He is said to have driven machinery on the bridge and started jack hammering the concrete. Within seconds, the bridge collapsed, and Alva and the machinery fell with the collapsed bridge. Alva was eventually extracted from the machinery, and was checked out by EMS.
