Police Blotter: Construction Worker Seriously Injured, Car Window Broken

A construction worker suffered a crushed and broken leg Wednesday morning when a concrete panel fell on his lower right leg while he was working on a building in the 200 block of East 14 Mile Rd.

According to a police report, the 51-year-old Detroit man and another worker were removing bricks from the walls of the vacant building when two concrete pre-cap panels fell, one of them landing on the worker. The concrete panels were 20 feet long and weighed 1,200 pounds each. Police say construction workers at the site removed the panel from on top of the victim's leg, and he was transported to Royal Oak Beaumont Hospital.

Construction workers at the site said the concrete pre-cap panels weren't placed across the load-bearing supports as building codes require.

Police said the injured man underwent at least two surgeries but is expected to recover.

Car window broken

The driver's window of a green Pontiac Grand Am was broken sometime before 12:20 a.m. Tuesday outside Auto USA, 62 W. 14 Mile Rd., police say. A police report said the window was still intact, but the glass was cracked, and there was a hole where the glass had broken out. 

Police said it appeared that the damage had been a caused by a small impact item such as a BB gun. Nothing was taken from the car. Police have no suspects in the incident.