Flying saw blade from construction site hits pedestrian

EMTs transport a woman who was struck by a dislodged circular blade from a construction apparatus that was cutting through pavement. William Farrington

A dislodged 30 inch (approx.) diameter circular blade from a Core Cut machine struck a woman on the sidewalk. The construction apparatus was cutting through pavement at 48th street and 9th avenue when the blade dislodged and skipped across the pavement at high speed and after striking the curbwent 10-12 feet in the air into a crowded sidewalk, before it struck the woman nearly a block away at 8:30 am tuesday morning in Manhattan. p[hoto William Farrington

The blasde hit the curb and flew 10 feet in the air before plummeting down and striking the woman who was walking in Hell’s Kitchen, officials said. William Farrington

Path of the dislodged circular blade. William Farrington

A woman who was struck by a dislodged 30 inch (approx.) diameter circular blade from a construction apparatus that was cutting through pavement at 48th street and 9th avenue being… William Farrington

A dislodged 30 inch (approx.) diameter circular blade from this Core Cut machine, left bottom, struck a woman on the sidewalk. The construction apparatus was cutting through pavement at 48th… William Farrington