Seattle Firefighters Rescue Man Trapped in Trench

SEATTLE --

Firefighters rescued a man who was trapped in a trench in South Seattle and performed CPR on him Thursday morning, firefighters said.

The man was pinned under compacted dirt that broke from the side of a vault in a trench at the Rainier Vista Project, a construction site near Martin Luther King Junior Way South and South Alaska Street.

Firefighters used ladders to get into the trench and used airbags to lift the 7,000-pound slab of dirt that pinned the man at chest level, firefighters said.

Firefighters administered CPR on scene and transported the man, who is in his 30s, to Harborview Medical Center. There is no immediate word on his condition.

A second man in the trench was able to get himself out on his own. He was taken to Harborview with non-life-threatening injuries.

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