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Mike Bolt of Williamston looks at
the collapsed shell home where he and Jeremiah Graham of Williamston
were both trapped on Riverside
Street in Pendleton Monday morning.
Anthony Graham, 29, of Williamston, brother of Jeremiah, used his car’s
hydraulic jack to raise the roof enough to get Mr. Bolt out and relieve
some pressure on Jeremiah until emergency crews came.
Ken Ruinard
Anderson Independent-Mail
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Collapsed roof traps man
By Megan Nichols Anderson
Independent-Mail
July 3, 2006
A Williamston man was trapped Monday morning when
the roof on a house he was working on collapsed.
Jeremiah
Graham, 29, was airlifted to Greenville
Hospital System
University Medical Center
after emergency workers responded to the scene off Riverside Street in Pendleton and
cut him out of the house, said Mike Bolt, Mr. Graham’s father-in-law who
was working at the house with him.
Mr.
Graham had rib and leg injuries, but Mr. Bolt said they were not life
threatening.
Mr.
Bolt also was in the house when the roof caved in.
"Luckily
I was in the back, working on some trim, and I could jump through a
window," said Mr. Bolt, 52, who sustained scratches on his back
where the roof fell on him as he jumped out.
Anthony
Graham, Mr. Graham’s brother, was at the house when it collapsed. He said
he used the car jack from his Ford Mustang to hold the house off of his
brother until emergency workers got there. He said help arrived about
five minutes after he called 911.
"I
just kept on talking to him and trying to keep him calm," Anthony
Graham, 26, said. "I could’ve reached in there and pulled him out,
but he was saying his back was hurting so I didn’t want to mess with
him."
The
three men were doing structural work to the house when beams bearing the
weight of the roof broke, bringing the roof down to the ground.
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