LAMBERTH, Kalnier--In what officials are calling a "freak accident," a 59-year-old man was injured when he was struck by falling equipment from a weather balloon.
Just after 1 pm Eastern time, dispatch received a call from a neighbor, who heard the victim yelling for help.
Emergency crews responded to the home in north Lamberth, where they discovered a large piece of equipment had improperly detached from the balloon, fell through the roof of the house, and struck the man while he was sitting inside.
The man was taken to hospital with a deep gash to his leg. After receiving sixteen stitches, he was released.
The falling piece of equipment that was a recording box attached to a parachute, which did not deploy. The box weighs about ten pounds.
The National Weather Observancy Bureau (NWOB) is investigating why the balloon did not land properly. Officials say accidents involving falling debris are extremely rare and the victim was just simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Just after 1 pm Eastern time, dispatch received a call from a neighbor, who heard the victim yelling for help.
Emergency crews responded to the home in north Lamberth, where they discovered a large piece of equipment had improperly detached from the balloon, fell through the roof of the house, and struck the man while he was sitting inside.
The man was taken to hospital with a deep gash to his leg. After receiving sixteen stitches, he was released.
The falling piece of equipment that was a recording box attached to a parachute, which did not deploy. The box weighs about ten pounds.
The National Weather Observancy Bureau (NWOB) is investigating why the balloon did not land properly. Officials say accidents involving falling debris are extremely rare and the victim was just simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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