Home security camera in Ohio captures runaway saw blade cutting gash in empty house

Security camera in Ohio captures runaway saw blade

LORAIN, Ohio — A home security camera has captured a runaway saw blade shooting through a northern Ohio yard and into the side of a house.

Video from the camera shows a large blade spinning off a saw being used to cut through a street. The blade then rolls through a yard and leaves a 3-foot gash in the side of an empty house in Lorain, a town about 25 miles west of Cleveland.

Rachel Gayhart says she and her husband checked their video Monday to see why the street work wasn’t finished. She says the blade missed a gas meter on the side of the neighboring house by two feet.

The video shows a construction worker retrieving the runaway blade and putting it back on the saw.

Lorain officials say the firm doing the work under contract for the city is investigating.

Information from: WEWS-TV, www.newsnet5.com