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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

Today is Wednesday is July 7th. Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning. An accident at a construction site in the University

City section

of Philadelphia killed one person and injured another authority said. It happened at 830 Tuesday

near the University City Penn Medicine SEPTA station stop on Convention Avenue. The owner of the

Bucks County based Cook drilling arrived to the scene overnight. According to fire officials,

heavy equipment was being moved off of a tractor trailer to a work site when a drilling

rig being used to lift equipment fell.

I've been in this area at least once a week for the past couple of weeks.

It is with construction, it is a mess.

I don't know how more people didn't die during this.

Is this the crane that fell down because I caught, because I caught that story this morning, too.

Yeah, I think it's, I guess it's the same thing.

They said it was, it was in University City and they were offloading a piece of equipment to the construction zone.

Okay.

So according to officials, the heavy equipment was being moved off of the tractor trailer.

The 55-year-old worker became trapped underneath.

It took about 15 minutes to extricate the worker.

He was taken to Pempresbyterian Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.

The rig operator was also injured and taken to the hospital for treatment.

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