Insulation worker run over while helping retrieve stolen company vehicle in Spokane Valley

A man was run over by a truck Monday morning while preparing the vehicle to be towed from a work site in Spokane Valley.

The accident occurred at about 9 a.m. in the 17100 block of East Boone Avenue.

The man, who is in his 40s, was transported to a hospital in critical condition, said Julie Happy, a spokeswoman for the Spokane Valley Fire Department.

KHQ reported the man is an employee of Intermountain West Insulation and was helping retrieve a company truck that had been stolen.

The man was securing a chain around an axle when he was run over. The driver of the tow truck didn’t realize the other man was still underneath the stolen vehicle and began to drive, KHQ reported. The stolen truck ran over the man’s chest.

An Intermountain West employee said the injured man was in stable condition Monday afternoon.

“We’re always appreciative of first responders and the people at the hospital who are taking care of him,” the company’s owner and manager, Darran Moody, said in a statement to KHQ. “We want to give him and his family some privacy as he is trying to recuperate. We’re not even thinking about the stolen truck and that side of things right now. Our thoughts and prayers are with him and his wife.”