VIDEO: There was an intense underground rescue near St. Louis nearly 200 feet down at a wastewater tunnel construction site.
One worker was injured.
The site is part of the four-mile MSD Deer Creek project that stretches from Lemay through Shrewsbury to Clayton.
The site was closed Wednesday after the accident, which was very scary for the injured worker and others who were trapped, plus two Shrewsbury firefighter/paramedics who went down to get most of them out. An on-site construction team was able to free the one worker who needed medical care, the firefighters said. He hurt his leg after a 3,000-pound form used to shape concrete fell around 9:30 in the morning.
The construction team was able to shift the form with a crane and lift him out. He was taken to a hospital for treatment of a non-life-threatening injury, authorities said.