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October 22, 2018
HOLTON, Kan. (AP) — A man was killed and another lost an arm when a mobile crane overturned at a roofing job site in northeast Kansas.
Jackson County Sheriff Tim Morse says the men were in a lift basket 30 feet from the ground Wednesday afternoon when the crane toppled over in Holton.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that 66-year-old John Zibell was killed. The surviving man was taken to a hospital about 80 miles away in Kansas City, Kansas. His arm was amputated.
Morse says the workers were using the crane to access the roof of a three-story house. He says it was sitting on sloped ground that was soft from recent rains. Federal officials are investigating.
Morse described what happened as “traumatic, grim and horrid.”