Front-end loader operator has close call
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This article was published 27/07/2017 (2964 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A Brandon resident who stopped to view the ongoing water main installation at the corner of Victoria Avenue and 34th Street got a little shock when she witnessed a front-end loader teeter on two wheels in a hole and nearly tip over.
“It was pretty close,” said Leona Randall, who had just finished grocery shopping on Tuesday evening and paused to watch construction. “They were dumping dirt and working. (The operator’s) front right tire got down into a hole and he couldn’t recover. When he went to back out, the two wheels lifted on the left side.”
“It was just sort of teetering on two wheels, and then flopped back.”
Randall, who had her smartphone handy, snapped photos as a backhoe operator went over top of dirt piles and managed to pull the front-end loader and its operator to safety.
The operator of the front-end loader, she says, didn’t exit the vehicle during the incident, but other workers had to scramble back a little so they weren’t close to the machine as it teetered.
City of Brandon spokesperson Allison Collins noted that city workers are not part of this construction, and that the company involved in the installation project is under contract with Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation. A spokesperson for the provincial department could not be reached as of Wednesday afternoon.
Collins did say, however, that the city’s engineering department spoke to the contractor and confirmed there was no damage or further incidents as a result.
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