Information from WYSH Radio

A Hallsdale-Powell Utility District worker suffered a broken leg Thursday when a piece of rock came loose from the wall of a trench he was working in and fell on him.

James Moore was working on a project to install a water line on East Wolf Valley Road shortly before 11 a.m. Thursday when the accident happened. Moore was pulled from the trench by emergency crews and taken to the University of Tennessee Medical Center for treatment of his injury.