Cohasset Police respond to industrial accident off Route 3A

June 28, 2024, provided by Cohasset Police Department (Photo provided by CPD)

On June 27, at approximately 11 a.m., Cohasset Police and Fire Department units were dispatched to a work yard off Route 3A in Cohasset for a reported industrial accident involving a 77-year-old man operating an excavator with a rock drill, breaking large boulders.

At the scene, the victim stated that the machine was violently shaken and then thrown to the ground when the hammer slipped off a rock it was breaking. Cohasset Fire Department paramedics stabilized the victim, removed him from the driver’s seat and transported him to the hospital by ambulance.

This incident is being investigated by detectives from the Cohasset Police Department and the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).