Westminster firefighters needed 15 minutes and some air bags to engineer a complicated rescue this afternoon to free a man pinned by an overturned steamroller.
The man works for private paving company. He flipped the asphalt roller as he was driving it up onto a trailer, pinning one of his legs between the steamroller and the curb.
“He suffered severe leg trauma,” Westminster Fire Capt. Bob Hose said in a statement.
After rescuers arrived at West 73rd Avenue and Irving Street at 2:20 p.m., they used heavy-duty inflatable bags to lift the steamroller and pull out the trapped man, who was airlifted by helicopter to a hospital at 2:35 p.m.
Neither the worker nor the paving company were identified.
