A Baltimore roofer who was struck by an industrial crane's boom while working at the Springfield Hospital Center was in critical but stable condition yesterday afternoon at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Robert W. Arbogast Jr., 46, was working atop the geriatric building at the Sykesville hospital about 9: 10 a.m. when a crane being used to lift materials to the roof broke free from its mounting, said Libby Luebberman, assistant chief of the Sykesville Fire Company.
"Whatever the cause, the boom on the crane fell and struck the man in the back," she said.
