By Maggie Susa, The Herald-Dispatch
POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — West Virginia Division of Highways worker Randall Randolph, 50, was injured by a truck while repairing potholes with a coworker on W.Va. 62 in Mason County around 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 18.
“It’s upsetting that anyone gets hurt in the highway system at all, let alone one of our transportation workers,” transportation secretary Stephen Todd Rumbaugh, said in a news release.
The workers were wearing reflective clothing and the lights on their truck were flashing at the time of the incident. Both workers attempted to run out of the way of the oncoming truck, but the vehicle hit Randolph, fracturing his femur, breaking his arm and separating his shoulder, according to information from the DOH.
He was taken to Pleasant Valley Hospital in Point Pleasant before being transferred to St. Mary’s Medical Center in Huntington for treatment.
According to Randall’s sister Rebecca Randolph, his coworker threw a shovel at the wheels of the truck when he realized it wasn’t going to stop, which made it swerve.