Firefighters rig basket to rescue injured worker in 75-foot construction pit
Megan Gillis, Postmedia
Published on: September 15, 2017 | Last Updated: September 15, 2017 11:11 AM EDT
Firefighters used special rigging and lift systems to rescue an injured construction worker from the bottom of a 75-foot deep hole at a King Edward Avenue construction site.
Paramedics treated the man in his 40s who’d suffered a medical emergency and was located down the hole as firefighters worked to lift him out.
Paramedics were able to use scaffolding to get down to the scene, but it would have been dangerous to move the patient up the stairs.
Firefighter specialists rigged up a Stokes basket, a stretcher that can be hoisted using a harness, at the construction site near St. Patrick Street.
The worker was conscious and stable condition but unable to get out because of a back injury.
The fire department’s high angle team were on scene as paramedics attended to the man.
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