DES MOINES – A construction worker was seriously injured Monday in an accident on Interstate 80.
According to a report, a construction vehicle – a 1994 John Deere 595D Excavator – was westbound on the outside shoulder when a fellow construction company worker walked into the path of the vehicle. The construction worker, Trinidad Banderas, 50, of Marshalltown, was run over by the front tires of the excavator resulting in serious injuries to the pedestrian.
Banderas was taken to Mercy Hospital in Des Moines.
