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A KOKI-TV reporter in Tulsa captures the rescue on Saturday.(Photo: Tiffany Alaniz/Twitter)
A worker died Saturday morning while repairing a gondola ride at the Tulsa, Okla., fairgrounds.
The worker and a partner were 90 feet above the ground replacing a pulley on the ride when the maintenance bucket they were in broke loose and plummeted to the ground, Tulsa Fire Department captain Stan May told USA TODAY.
“They were harnessed up so it left them dangling about 85-feet in the air,” May said. “One of the workers had a traumatic head injury, went unconscious on the way down and went into cardiac arrest.”
May said the man, whose name and age were not released, died a local hospital. The second worker was alert and in stable condition.
Firefighters raised a ladder platform to retrieve the men shortly before noon Saturday.
A reporter with KOKI-TV in Tulsa captured the rescue on video as the men hung in their harnesses.
The Tulsa fair is scheduled to open on Oct. 1.
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