A worker with an independent contractor was rescued by firefighters from a trench Friday after he was pinned by some heavy equipment along 24th Street in Rock Island.
Rock Island Fire Department Battalion Chief Doug DuBree said the workers were installing a fire hydrant in the 2500 block of 24th Street.
Workers were attempting to lower a line tapper into the trench using an end loader when the piece of equipment fell into the trench, DuBree said.
“It’s a pretty heavy piece of equipment,” DuBree said. “It hit him on the back. We’re not sure how seriously he was injured. He didn’t lose consciousness or anything. He was conscious and alert and he was talking to us. But, he was in pain.”
The fire department was dispatched to the scene at 2:14 p.m. and arrived on the scene at 2:16 p.m., he said. The man was out of the hole by 2:44 p.m.
The victim was taken to Trinity Medical Center-West Campus, Rock Island. His condition was not available Friday night.
“We put him on a backboard and collard his neck,” DuBree said. “We put him in a stokes basket and set up a rope rescue and slid him up a ladder. Everything went real well.”
He added that the construction company “followed the regulations and had the trench shored up.”
DuBree said the Rock Island Arsenal and Moline fire departments were called in to assist. “We need so many technical rescue team guys who are qualified,” he said. “Our guys go through a lot of training for this type of rescue. Last week we went through rope rescue drills. Not long ago we practiced trench rescue.”
DuBree said members of the technical rescue team go through about 700 hours of training for rescue from a confined space, trench rescue, building collapse, high angle or rope rescue, and vehicle and machinery entrapment.
There have been four or five other rescues from trenches in the last 30 years in Rock Island.
A worker with an independent contractor was rescued by firefighters from a trench Friday after he was pinned by some heavy equipment along 24th Street in Rock Island.
Rock Island Fire Department Battalion Chief Doug DuBree said the workers were installing a fire hydrant in the 2500 block of 24th Street.
Workers were attempting to lower a line tapper into the trench using an end loader when the piece of equipment fell into the trench, DuBree said.
“It’s a pretty heavy piece of equipment,” DuBree said. “It hit him on the back. We’re not sure how seriously he was injured. He didn’t lose consciousness or anything. He was conscious and alert and he was talking to us. But, he was in pain.”
The fire department was dispatched to the scene at 2:14 p.m. and arrived on the scene at 2:16 p.m., he said. The man was out of the hole by 2:44 p.m.
“We put him on a backboard and collard his neck,” DuBree said. “We put him in a stokes basket and set up a rope rescue and slid him up a ladder. Everything went real well.”
He added that the construction company “followed the regulations and had the trench shored up.”
DuBree said members of the technical rescue team go through about 700 hours of training for rescue from a confined space, trench rescue, building collapse, high angle or rope rescue, and vehicle and machinery entrapment.
There have been four or five other rescues from trenches in the last 30 years in Rock Island.
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