A longshoreman was taken to a Vancouver hospital by Life Flight helicopter Monday morning after he was struck by a log while working in the hold of freighter at the Port of Longview, according to the Longview Fire Department.
According to the fire department, a crane was lowering logs into the TPC Timaru when one of them swung around and struck the longshoreman. Ship crews and other longshoremen loaded him into a rescue basket, and the crane lifted the man to the dock, where he was treated briefly by firefighters and AMR medics. Life Flight then took him to Southwest Washington Medical Center in Vancouver, according to the fire department.