Crime & Safety
A Ton of Flour Severely Injures an Avenel Worker
A 51-year-old man was injured when a ton of flour he was offloading from a rail car fell on him.
A worker at a warehouse in Avenel was severely injured Wednesday, when a 2,000 lb. pallet of flour he was moving fell on him.
The Avenel-Colonia First Aid Squad (ACFAS) responded to the call, which happened around 10:50 am at Terminal Way in the Avenel section of Woodbridge.
The man was unloading the ton of flour from a railroad car when it fell on him, said ACFAS president John McHale.
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Workers helped free the injured man from the fallen flour, while ACFAS EMS employees treated the man whom they believed had sustained a fractured pelvis.
The 51-year-old man was taken to UMDNJ in Newark, a trauma center. "He was pretty severely injured," McHale said.
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Woodbridge Police and paramedics from UMDNJ in Rahway were also on the scene, McHale said.
There was no word on the man's condition.
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