Esso Club employee tossed onto roof while trying to secure event tent in storm Samuel Foster had to get stitches above his eye; another employee suffered minor injuries Share Shares Copy Link Copy

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>> LOOK CLOSELY HERE. TERRIFYING MOMENTS CAUGHT ON CAMERA. VOIR DIRE SHOWING A MAN LIFTED INTO THE AIR. LOOK CLOSELY. HE WAS THROWN ONTO THE ROOF OF A CLUB IN CLEMSON. >> YOU'LL HEAR FROM HIM TONIGHT AS HE AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE ARE RECOVERING. THE TWO WERE TRYING TO HOLD DOWN THE TENT AS STRONG STORMS MOVED THROUGH THE AREA. WE ARE LIVE IN CLEMSON THIS AFTERNOON IF THAT STORY. >> I'M TOLD THAT STORM YESTERDAY HIT FAST AND HARD. THE EVENT TENT WAS OUT HERE IN THIS PARKING LOT DURING THE STORM. THAT'S WHEN EMPLOYEES RAN OUT TO TRY AND SECURE IT. UNFORTUNATELY, THEIR EFFORTS WERE NOT ENOUGH. >> ALL OUR STUFF IS GETTING BLOWN AWAY AND I'M TRYING TO SAVE ALL THE WORK THAT WE HAD PUT INTO IT. >> HOWLING WINDS AND RAIN BATTERED CLEMSON YESTERDAY AS CLUB EMPLOYEES FOUGHT THE STORM TO TRY TO HOLD DOWN THEIR EVENT TENT AND THEN IT HAPPENED. >> THE BIGGER TENTS THAT WE HAD INSTALLED THAT MORNING KIND OF JUST TOOK OFF. >> THE TENT WENT AIR BORN AND TOOK TWO EMPLOYEES WITH IT. >> HOLD ON. HONESTLY, JUST WHERE ARE WE DROPPING. >> ONE GIRL WAS DRAGGED INTO THE AIR AND SLAMMED INTO A TABLE. >> ANOTHER EMPLOYEE LIFTED WELL ABOVE THE ROOF AND THROWN INTO THE SIDE OF THE BUILDING HITTING THE GUTTER AND LANDING HARD. >> TOOK A SECOND FOR IT TO REGISTER BUT I'M LIKE 20 FEET IN THE AIR AND ALL I COULD THINK WAS I GOT TO LAND ON THIS ROOF. >> EMS RESPONDED TO THE SCENE AND LUCKILY HE WAS ABLE TO WALK AWAY FROM THE ACCIDENT BUT HAD TO GET STITCHES FROM WHERE HIS HEAD SLAMMED THE GUTTER. THE GIRL IS RECOVERING FROM HER INJURIES AS WELL. >> I'M THANKFUL TO GOD FOR LOOKING OUT FOR ME THERE. EVERYONE HAS BEEN REALLY SUPPORTIVE. I'M THANKFUL FOR ALL OF THAT. >> MANAGEMENT TELLS ME THE DAMAGE TO THE CLUB ITSELF WAS MINIMAL. THEY WERE ABLE TO OPEN THIS MORNING WITH NO PROBLEM. SAMUELS PLANS TO RETURN HERE AS A COOK THIS COMI

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