Florida firefighters needed a crane to rescue a construction worker Thursday after he was injured by an extremely heavy piece of equipment.
Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue crews responded to a call of a 35-year-old man who hurt his back when equipment weighing around 1,500 pounds rolled over and hit him while he was working at the construction site, WPLG-TV reports. The injury left the worker stranded on the fifth floor of the unfinished building, and a crane and Stokes basket were needed to safely lower the man to the ground.
"The elevators aren't in yet, the ladders aren't in yet, and they're utilizing the cranes to get the materials on and off the buildings," Battalion Chief Stephen Gollan told WPLG. "If this would have been a building that was completed, it would have been simply putting the individual in the elevator and bringing him down."
It took firefighters a little more than an hour to rescue the worker, who was taken to a local hospital in stable condition, according to the TV station.
