OLYMPIA, Wash. — A worker was trapped under a forklift for over an hour in Olympia on Wednesday, the West Thurston Regional Fire Authority said in a release.
Rescue crews arrived on scene at Marksman Road Southwest at around 1:00 p.m. to find that a forklift had rolled into a hole and pinned the worker.
The Thurston County Special Operations Rescue Team used heavy equipment to lift the forklift off the worker, and they were airlifted to a local hospital, West Thurston Fire said.