JEFFERSON TWP., OH (WCMH) — Rescue crews have extricated a construction worker who fell into a trench near the intersection of Reynoldsburg New Albany Road and Blacklick Ridge Boulevard.
The Violet Township Fire Department says a contracted worker for the city of Columbus was on a piece of machinery, digging a trench for a city sewage project. The man fell about 15 feet off the machine and into the hole and was in a “precarious position.”
Heavy rescue from several departments worked to stabilize a basket and bring the man up. The rescue took about 45 minutes.
The worker was taken to Grant Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries.
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