Worker's runaway blade caught on video

After returning from work on Friday, Rachel Gayhart, 32, couldn’t figure out why the road work in front of her Wilson Street home hadn’t been completed. Her husband, James, 33, suggested she take a look at the footage from their security cameras. The couple installed the cameras four years ago after two large Christmas inflatables were stolen from their lawn. “He said, ‘did you rewind the cameras and see if they (construction workers) actually did anything?’” Rachel said.

And when they did, the couple couldn’t believe what they saw. Slowing the footage down, the Gayharts saw a steel circular blade had come flying from the machine a lone worker was operating and began bouncing down their driveway before whirling out of the camera’s view. The worker then looked around to see if anyone had seen what happened and then went to retrieve the blade, she said.



“It was just one guy and he was with the cutter and when he turned the machine this way, something came flying,” she said. After reviewing the footage, the couple went outside to check for any damages, and at first only noticed scratches along their driveway and a gouge in the grass of a vacant house next door.

“My husband had walked up to see where it (the blade) had gone, and he just started laughing,” Rachel said. “He said, ‘Here’s where it went into the house.’” Underneath a first floor bedroom, the blade had burrowed into the house, leaving a very visible gash, she said.

With additional news video.