{"id":224614,"date":"2026-06-21T23:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T23:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/224614\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T23:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T23:10:09","slug":"police-man-loses-both-legs-in-a-workplace-incident-in-berks-co-northern-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/224614\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Man loses both legs in a workplace incident in Berks Co. | Northern Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LYON STATION, Pa. &#8211; A serious workplace accident led to an employee losing both legs on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, a call came in at 6:23 a.m. for an incident at East Penn Manufacturing Company.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the man involved in the accident is in stable condition but lost both his legs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis employee was involved in an accident while performing maintenance within the Smelter facility,\u201d reads a Facebook post from the company that has since been taken down. \u201cWe are working with authorities to do an investigation of the accident, and we will respond in a way that will continue to uphold our utmost concern for everyone\u2019s health and safety.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LYON STATION, Pa. &#8211; A serious workplace accident led to an employee losing both legs on Saturday. According&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[97547,64237,26030,97546,3837,1881,128,130,129,53642,97548],"class_list":["post-224614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-amputation","tag-east-penn-manufacturing","tag-emergency-response","tag-industrial-accident","tag-injury","tag-manufacturing","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-workplace-accident","tag-workplace-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224614","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=224614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}