A Pennsylvania woman was killed in a freak accident while walking on the sidewalk near a construction site on Friday.
Police said that a runaway metal cylinder from a construction site at the Peterson Events Center in Oakland struck the woman in the head fatally wounding her.
“Obviously, there is a construction site here, a large, metal steel drum that escaped from the construction site, rolled down the hill, broke through a section of fencing,” said Pittsburgh Public Safety Public Information Officer Emily Bourne.
“And the woman was on the sidewalk, street area when she was struck by the runaway piece of metal.”
Passersby tried to help the dying woman by administrating CPR but she was shortly later declared dead at the scene.
The victim was reportedly a staff member at an area hospital. Her identity was not immediately made public.
