Firefighters rescued an injured worker from a 20-feet-deep hole he was knocked into after a car crashed into a construction site in Anaheim on Monday night, authorities said.
Urban search-and-rescue teams from Anaheim and Orange were called out to the scene, at State College Boulevard and Ball Road, shortly after the 10:30 p.m. crash, said Battalion Chief Tim Sandifer of Anaheim Fire & Rescue.
“The victim had been performing some shoring work in preparation for some sewer reconstruction,” Sandifer said.
A driver then crashed into the construction site, hitting some equipment, and caused the worker to fall into the hole.
He had some musculoskeletal injuries and couldn’t get out himself, Sandifer said.
Within about an hour rescuers, were able to lift the worker out using a basket and take him to a trauma center.
The uninjured driver left the car but was taken into custody by police about a block away. The cause of the crash was under investigation.
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