operating on erecting a metal form for a concrete column

operating on erecting a metal form for a concrete column when he fell 15 feet onto a 3-foot-tall metal rod, stated La Terra, adding that the inch-thick rod entered Eakin's lower back and exited his abdomen.
Eakin was in shock when firefighters and emergency medical technicians arrived and cut the steel bar below him before loading him into an ambulance with the bar still passing through him, La Terra mentioned.
The construction worker was rushed to University Hospital in mitchell ondemand 5 Newark, La Terra stated. No addition information on Eakin was available, nor was his condition.
The work website was shut down and town inspectors and inspectors from the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration were to inspect the large building site before allowing automotive scanners design to resume, La Terra mentioned.
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Two stolen SUVs recovered and East Orange man is arrested, cops say

Revealed: Tuesday, January 03, 2012, three:19 PM Updated: Tuesday, January 03, 2012, three:27 PM
JERSEY Metropolis Jersey Town cops investigating a new Year's Day carjacking arrested a East Orange felon right after car and foot pursuits this early morning and charged him with possessing two stolen automobiles, officers mentioned.
Korri Pettiford, 34, of East Orange, was arrested on Bennet Street right now and demand with getting stolen house -- a Mercedes SUV stolen in Bernardsville as well as a Jeep Cherokee carjacked in New Providence, police stated.
On Sunday at nine:03 a.m. a resident arrived residence around the 800 block of Newark Avenue and when he got away from his black Mercedes SUV, a man pulled a gun on him, police explained. The gunman took his mobile phone and drove absent while in the SUV, stories said.
Final evening a police officer noticed precisely the same design and coloration Mercedes parked on Boyd Avenue and located it was not the carjacked automobile, however it was noted stolen, police mentioned. Officers set up surveillance and