PA Firefighters Rescue Worker after 150-Foot Fall Down Hill

Pittsburgh firefighters, police and EMS workers set up a rope belay system to rescue a construction manager who fell down a hillside into a gully while working on a landslide mitigation project.

By Michael DiVittorio

Source The Tribune-Review

May 30, 2020

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Pittsburgh firefighters, police and EMS workers rescued a construction manager who fell down a 150-foot hillside into a gully Friday.

A Pittsburgh construction manager working on a landslide mitigation project in the city was rescued Friday after he fell down a hillside.

Authorities said police, EMS and firefighters responded to a call for a construction worker over a hillside around 9:30 a.m. near the intersection of Arlington Avenue and William Street in the city’s Mt. Washington neighborhood.

They found a man had tumbled about 150 feet down into a gully. Rescuers established a rope belay system to move the man in a Stokes basket down a 65 percent grade, authorities said.

The rescue took a little more than an hour. Paramedics treated the man at the scene. He was later secured and transported to a hospital in serious but stable condition

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