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Associated Press - July 30, 2010 5:14 PM ET
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) - A construction worker was injured while repairing the roof at the UNI-Dome.
Cedar Falls Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Roger Stensland says a crew was removing part of the roof when the man slipped, fell and slid some distance down the roof Friday morning. He landed on a wide platform around the outside edge of the Dome. Firefighters used a platform aerial ladder boom truck to get him down.
University of Northern Iowa spokesman Jim O'Connor says the worker wrenched his back and was taken to a Waterloo hospital for examination.
Crews are replacing and repairing the UNI-Dome roof, which was seriously damaged by a storm a year ago.
O'Connor says the injured man worked for Schwickert Co. of Mankato, Minn., the general contractor. His name was not immediately released.
Information from: The Gazette, http://www.gazetteonline.com/
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