By Bill Lindelof, Sacramento Bee

A Placer County Sheriff’s deputy is in a medically induced coma after striking his head on a beam during a training exercise.

Deputy Austin Harper was on duty helping with police dog training last week when his head struck a steel support beam in a vacant commercial building, according to a post on the sheriff’s Facebook site.

Before working for the sheriff’s office, he was a police officer in Truckee.

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