WORCESTER, MASS. (WHDH) - Emergency crews worked into the night to remove a crane that toppled onto a house in Worcester on Thursday afternoon, officials said.
Officials responding to a Cumberland Street home between 1:20 p.m. found a crane that had slammed into the house and rolled onto its side.
SKY7HD footage showed the base of the crane crashed into one house and the boom of a crane on top of the house next door.
The crane was supposedly trimming trees before it toppled over onto the home, taking down several trees before the boom landed on the roof of the neighboring house.
“I saw them cutting trees, I went in the house for a minute and all of a sudden bam! I came out and there was the crane into the house,” one witness said.
The owner of the neighboring house the boom fell onto was asleep at the time of the crash. He was not injured, officials said.
“I heard a big noise and I went outside and I see this and my neighbor was cutting tree. That was sinkhole on the ground and the tree tripped over and caused two houses of damages,” the homeowner said.
No one was inside the other home during the time of the crash, according to officials.
The crane operator was trapped inside the cab of the crane for approximately one hour before crews were able to cut out of the machine. He suffered minor injuries and was not taken to the hospital.
Firefighters believe they will have to detach the base of the crane from the boom in order to remove the crane from the scene.
Cleanup efforts are ongoing and there is no estimated time of completion.
Fire officials believe the soft, wet ground gave way under the weight of the crane, causing the crash.
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