SEAFORD — Multiple rescue agencies from across Sussex County successfully freed a 38-year-old construction worker from a collapsed trench Friday morning after delicately working nearly two hours in muddy, cold soil to stabilize the scene and pull the man to safety.
Emergency crews were dispatched to the 400 block of Plantation Drive in the Governor’s Grant subdivision in Seaford at about 10:45 a.m. Friday for a reported trench rescue. The man was part of a crew working on underground utilities outside a house under construction in the subdivision off Atlanta Road.
Once on scene, emergency responders found the man on his knees, waist deep in several feet of sand and dirt that had collapsed around him in an 8-foot-deep hole. According to witnesses, the worker, at one point, had been covered up to his chest. However, the actions of quick-thinking co-workers, and the victim himself, to dig away some of…
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