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(KSL News) -- A falling boulder critically injured a construction worker in Draper.
The man was working on a landscape project near 1870 E. 13181 South.
He was digging a trench, with his back to a retention wall made of boulders.
Capt. Troy Prows, Unified Fire Authority: "When he was digging, one of the boulders set loose from the wall at about the height of his head and hit him from behind and pinned him to the ground."
Co-workers freed the man less than a minute after he'd been pinned, and a fire crew just happened to be nearby.
The saturated soil may have caused the boulder to come loose.
