Road worker injured while placing cones on highway in Hawaii

A road worker in Oahu, Hawaii, was injured last week after he fell while placing orange safety cones along a highway.

According to Hawaii News Now, the road worker was seriously injured September 4 at about 5:40 a.m. when he fell from a road crew truck that had been contracted to do work on Kalanianaole Highway.

The 59-year-old man suffered a knee injury from the accident and was taken to the hospital.

The accident shut down traffic on the road for about an hour as police responded to the scene.