Traveling thousands of miles up and down U.S. highways since 1961, Woodsfield resident Charles Burkhart had never wrecked a tractor-trailer until Monday.

"I was coming around the turn, felt the shift and went right over," the truck driver said after rolling his truck in the southbound lanes of Ohio 7 just south of the Moundsville Bridge at 1:38 p.m. Monday. Burkhart walked away from the accident with only a sore shoulder and did not require medical attention.

No other vehicles were involved in the crash. Traffic was not interrupted because southbound vehicles were detoured onto the Ohio 872 (Moundsville Bridge) exit, then directed around the crash and back onto Ohio 7 via the southbound entrance ramp at that exit.

Burkhart had just picked up a 45,000-pound steel coil at the Wheeling-Nisshin plant in Follansbee that he was to deliver to a South Carolina destination. As he negotiated a sharp turn at the Ohio River bend near the Moundsville Bridge, the load shifted, leading to the rollover.

"I am glad I had my seat belt on. ... Thank God no one else was involved," he said. "I just hope nothing like this happens again."

About an hour after the wreck, a large tow truck with a crane arrived to get the tractor-trailer back up on its wheels. Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers said the accident report was still incomplete late Monday, so they could not comment on potential citations.