{"id":112242,"date":"2026-02-12T18:16:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/112242\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T18:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:16:19","slug":"mini-excavator-falls-on-operator-sending-them-to-hospital-fire-company-says-northern-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/112242\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini-excavator falls on operator, sending them to hospital, fire company says | Northern Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MAIDENCREEK TWP., Pa. &#8211; A mini-excavator fell on a person in Berks County Thursday morning, sending the person to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Crews were sent to the 100 block of West Wesner Road in Maidencreek Township around 7:45 a.m., according to the Blandon Fire Company.<\/p>\n<p>The fire company says a contractor was delivering the mini-excavator to a home and as they removed it, the mini-excavator tipped over and trapped the operator.<\/p>\n<p>It took about 20 minutes to remove the operator, using cribbing and hydraulics, the fire company said.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0operator was taken to Reading Hospital. A person with the fire company said it is believed the operator\u2019s injuries are non-life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p>The fire company says OSHA is investigating the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MAIDENCREEK TWP., Pa. &#8211; A mini-excavator fell on a person in Berks County Thursday morning, sending the person&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,19816,6111,21027,53641,53643,19811,128,130,129,53642],"class_list":{"0":"post-112242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-fire-company","10":"tag-hospital","11":"tag-maidencreek-township","12":"tag-mini-excavator","13":"tag-operator","14":"tag-osha","15":"tag-reading-city","16":"tag-reading-city-headlines","17":"tag-reading-city-news","18":"tag-workplace-accident"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}