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Bucket Truck Hits Power Line, Operator Gets Stuck

DENVER (CBS4) - A worker doing construction at an apartment building got stuck in the bucket of a lift truck on Friday morning.

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The incident happened at 2700 Decatur Street in Denver. The lift truck's boom hit a power line and that left the bucket operator stuck.

Denver firefighters worked with a crew from Xcel Energy to get the man safely out of the bucket.

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His name was not released and he was unharmed.

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