A woman was struck in the leg by a flying buzzsaw as she walked by a road construction site in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday morning, NBC News reported.
The construction company, which was doing work for the city, was tearing up the roadway to fix a water main at 48th Street and Ninth Avenue when the saw flew into the air.
Although the woman suffered a cut, she was not seriously injured, according to Annette Markowski, spokeswoman for the New York Police Department.
In the footage, people can be seen walking down the street before the buzzsaw comes flying across the road.
The 3-foot blade "came shooting down the sidewalk" as Matthew Bisi was passing by.
"I was on the right side of the sidewalk, suddenly everyone started yelling 'Get down! Move!'" he said. "It was just like crazy chaos. People screaming, all the construction workers."
"I just turned, kinda ducked, put my head down," he said. "Thing came flying right by my head, missed me by that much. You could hear it coming and it went right by me," he said.
Another witness, Sean Kuilan, also recalled the sound of the blade, according to NBC News.
"I hear the blade and see the blade literally coming off the machine," he said. "It was huge. It looked like it was from a horror flick. I couldn't believe it."
The buzzsaw sliced into the woman "straight on" after traveling about 100 feet and hitting a tree, Bisi said. She was knocked to the ground screaming in agony.
"It took her right down, gashes on the side of the thigh," he said. "The force of that coming in was pretty hard."
Having suffered a gash on her leg, she was taken to Bellevue Hospital, Kuilan said.
"It was scary," said Bisi. "I'm like twitching now just thinking about it. You don't expect to see that or have that happen to you."
