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A woman in US's Pittsburgh was killed when she was hit by a steel drum weighing thousands of pounds that rolled out of a construction site. The woman suffered a head injury and was pronounced dead at the spot.
The steel drum, after hitting the woman, then went across a road before it came to rest against a pickup truck. (Photo: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
Pittsburgh,UPDATED: May 5, 2024 19:12 IST
A steel drum weighing thousands of pounds somehow rolled out of a construction site in Pittsburgh and eventually struck and killed a woman who was walking on a nearby sidewalk, police said.
The accident occurred around 10:40 am on Friday in the city’s Oakland neighbourhood, where the University of Pittsburgh’s new sports performance centre was being built.
The drum was either knocked over or dislodged from a piece of heavy equipment, police said. It then rolled several hundred feet as it went down a hill, through a fence and onto the sidewalk where the woman was walking with co-workers from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre’s Western Psychiatric Hospital.
The drum then went across a road before it came to rest against a pickup truck.
The woman, who suffered a head injury, was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later.
Her name was released and no other injuries were reported in the accident, which remains under investigation.
Published By:
Prateek Chakraborty
Published On:
May 5, 2024
