City worker injured in freak accident with voting machine
By Elizabeth Billips Associate Editor

Waynesboro's water plant operator was seriously injured last week when he took a spill with a voting machine.

Reginal Hanton was unloading the 500-pound machine from a pick-up bed when he was knocked to the pavement with the machine on top of him.

He was transported to a nearby hospital with a deep laceration above his eye and a fractured leg.

According to city administrator Jerry Coalson, the crew had taken the old lever-style machines to Swainsboro where they were being sold.

While Hanton was well enough to attend Monday night's city council meeting with his leg stretched across a row of seats, he said he'd be undergoing surgery on his lower leg Tuesday morning.

Coalson says he expects Hanton to be out of work for two more weeks.