SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Fire Department says a woman was hit in the head Thursday by a crane on a construction barge at a dock in Elliott Bay.
Firefighters used an extended ladder, ropes and rescue basket to lift the woman from the barge.
She’s been taken to Harborview Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.
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