NORWICH – A delivery truck carrying a load of animal carcasses to a processing plant in Utica lost control in the Wednesday morning rain and careened into a town of Norwich home, injuring the driver.

The unoccupied trailer, located at 1011 along County Road 34, also suffered damage in the impact and left a gaping hole in the structure’s wall, exposing the interior to the elements.

The Chenango County Sheriff’s Office reported that the truck’s driver, 50-year-old Joseph Dimasse of Utica, was taken by the South New Berlin Fire Department’s ambulance to Chenango Memorial Hospital with minor chest and neck pains.

Neighbors at the scene said the home belonged to the Gross family. It was not immediately known how many occupants resided at the trailer or what arrangements were being made to aid them.