A construction worker in West Lafayette, Indiana, was injured when a 4-foot by 6-foot section of a sidewalk collapsed into a trench on the Purdue University campus.Construction crews with Huston Electric, based in Lafayette, were trenching next to the sidewalk to install utilities when the accident happened on July 14.“They were digging up to the sidewalk and around it,” says Purdue University spokesman Jim Bush. “They’re putting utilities in for the Honors College residents’ hall and the sidewalk collapsed on a guy.”The injuries were to the worker’s lower leg and were not life-threatening.Washington, DC, Tunneling Machine Gets to WorkLucy, DC
