Lowell Sun

BOSTON - An employee of the Boston area's transit agency injured in a 30-foot fall down a shaft has been rescued.


Firefighters pulled the veteran Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority worker from inside a hollow concrete support column at about 7 a.m. Wednesday.

An MBTA spokesman says the employee for the agency's power department was working on an elevated trolley track near the Charles Street/Massachusetts General Hospital station in Boston at about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday when he fell between the tracks and down a 2-foot-by-2-foot hole that widens at the bottom

A fire department spokesman says the man was conscious but in "extreme pain" from leg injuries. His name was not made public.

Because of the accident, the T was busing between the Kendall Square and the Broadway stops on the Red Line.

Related

• The Boston Globe: A Dire Fall, A Dramatic Save
• The Boston Herald: Hero Firefighters Recount Rescue
• The Boston Herald: T Chief Orders Review After Plunge into Shaft

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March 30, 2011