Toronto firefighters free construction worker pinned by concrete after hours-long, ‘complex’ rescue

A construction worker has been rescued about five hours after being pinned by a piece of concrete at a construction site in the city’s west end on Friday.Around 3:16 p.m., a CP24 camera captured the injured worker, a 56-year-old man, on a stretcher being loaded into an ambulance.Toronto paramedics operations commander Jamie Rodgers said the man’s injuries are considered serious but non-life-threatening.“He is dealing with multi-system trauma,” Rodgers said. The worker was subsequently taken to a trauma centre for treatment.Rodgers added that the man was conscious and talking during the rescue.It is a successful end to rescue operations at the site near Lansdowne Avenue and Davenport Road that began shortly after 10:20 a.m. That’s when emergency crews were called about a worker injured by a collapsed wall.“I’m pleased to say that, at the five-hour mark, we’ve released the patient from the entrapment. It was a very complex rescue. Our crews did an amazing job,” said Toronto Fire Division Commander Paul O’Brien.industrial accident A worker was reportedly injured at a construction site near Lansdowne Avenue and Davenport Road following a wall collapse, police say. He told reporters that construction workers were doing a dig at the site when a concrete wall came down, pinning the legs of one of them.According to O’Brien, the space where the worker was trapped was 24 inches wide and about 12 feet deep.He noted that Toronto Fire’s highly trained technical operations team and tren...