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Trapped construction worker freed
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A Forsyth County construction worker trapped beneath dirt when a trench wall collapsed was freed and air-lifted to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.
The man was freed after having been trapped for more than two hours. He was initially trapped by dirt up to his neck, but his co-workers were able to remove some of the dirt before firefighters arrived and completed the rescue.
Emergency crews stabilized the man in an ambulance on the scene and transported him to a helicopter waiting nearby to fly him to Grady’s trauma center, Fire Department Capt. Jason Shivers said.
Although the man appeared to be able to move his arms and legs, Shivers said “he was definitely in a life-threatening situation.”
Shivers listed the man’s status as “questionable because we don’t know what kind of internal injuries he might have sustained from the kind of crushing pressures a collapse like this causes.”
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