PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) -
A construction worker on the Marquam Bridge is lucky to be alive after a close call with a semi truck Wednesday morning.
Monty McLaughlin was mid-span on the lower deck cleaning things up when he suddenly heard a co-worker yell out to him.
Apparently, two truck drivers were trying to pass each other at a merge point on the span where McLaughlin was working. Thanks to the alert from his co-worker, McLaughlin was able to jump out of the way and jump up onto a bridge railing.
The trucks collided, but there were no injuries to the semi drivers, McLaughlin or any of the other construction workers on the bridge at the time.
"The guy I was working with yelled and said there was a truck. I turned around and I saw the truck coming into our lane. I jumped up on the bridge rail and just held on tight," McLaughlin said.
It took the Oregon Department of Transportation about four hours to remove the trucks from the bridge.
SLIDESHOW: Marquam Bridge crash
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