Nov 2, 2014 1 min read

MONONGAHELA – A trucker suffered minor injuries Sunday morning when the tanker truck he was driving rolled onto its side on the Monongahela Bridge while he was hauling water to a Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling operation.

The truck driver was taken for treatment at Mon Valley Hospital while firefighters and Washington County Hazardous Materials Response Team contained a small diesel spill from the truck, emergency officials said at the scene. His name and condition were not released.

Ron Sicchitano Jr., the county’s deputy director of public safety, said the Haas Environmental Inc. of Southhampton, N.J., truck was hauling Monongahela River water drawn in Allennport to a well pad in Forward Township. EQT has been using a caravan of tanker trucks in recent weeks to get water from the river to the Oliver West well pad on Pangburn Hollow Road.

The truck that crashed was behind another traveling Route 88 north to the Washington County entrance to the bridge, where it toppled onto its side about 11 a.m., damaging a concrete barrier along the sidewalk.

The bridge was closed for more than three hours while crews removed the wreckage.