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Roofer rescued after falling 40-feet into tank of corrosive nitric acid at a New Jersey industrial site
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44 year old Martin Davis seeing here in the white shirt next twenty year old son Andrew is in critical condition tonight at the burn center at -- part of this medical center.
Today he felt forty feet into a tank of nice -- accident while working on a roof at the swept -- to company in Clifton New Jersey.
His mother and father told me their son is alive now because of a brief coworker who jumped into the vat of acid and save Martin's life.
That co worker also suffered burns but has been treated and released from the hospital.
-- -- -- Out of that fit and that's somebody saved him and I wish I knew who was.
-- they rushed him over to barn at its hospitals.
And right now -- we know is to keep it and -- David do you have some burns on his legs and shot it.
He had two broken pelvis bone -- but collapse -- Martin was working for Garko on enterprises on the roof above the metal -- manufacturing plant -- when he fell.
His father tells me to fear now.
Is what internal damage might have happened -- his son was breathing in those toxic acid fumes.
The bad part is.
That that of this -- that -- -- was -- -- Let me throw a quarter and that in one minute it's gone.
Luckily I dragged them out.
Because I mean I don't know how long your skin can survive.
Being in -- -- it.
O'Shea is investigating this accident scene and fire officials from Clifton are also looking into this case as for the co workers that.
Helped him out of that -- that they have all been trio at the hospital and released Sharon Crowley Fox 5 News.
