Manhole misstep leaves worker in hospital
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 | 3:42 PM MT
CBC News
Occupational Health and Safety is investigating after a Calgary construction worker fell down an uncovered manhole. (CBC) A Calgary construction worker is in hospital after falling two to three metres down a concrete manhole.
Shortly before noon Wednesday, the Calgary fire department was called to Aspen Hills Green, a new community off 17th Avenue and 85th Street S.W.
The worker, a 27-year-old man, had fallen into an uncovered manhole at a construction site.
Fire and EMS treated the man where he was until firefighters were able to remove him with a basket-type stretcher within less than 10 minutes of their arrival on site.
EMS spokesman Adam Loria said getting the man out wasn't easy.
"It was a difficult manoeuvre and area to work … there's a lot of dirt and gravel and such. But again we all pulled together, worked hard, [and] we did extricate him there in a timely fashion," Loria said.
The man was taken to hospital and is now in stable, non-life threatening condition.
Alberta Occupational Health and Safety is investigating.
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