Talk about narrow escapes.
Rescuers managed to squeeze a fall victim out of an O'Hara Township water tower through what amounts to a large wire and tubing conduit.
The man, who was part of a cleaning crew preparing the tower for painting, tumbled 35 to 40 feet into the tank when his scaffolding failed, according to officials.
The man, whose identity was not immediately released, was conscious when firefighters rescued him a shortly after 2:30 p.m., said George McBriar, chief of Blawnox volunteer fire department.
The man was rescued through a tube, which McBriar said was just 3 feet in diameter, at the bottom of the tower, located at the end of a quiet, wooded, dead-end street perpendicular to the 900 block of Field Club Road in O'Hara.