VIRGINIA BEACH (WAVY) — A maintenance worker was taken to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital after he fell about 30 feet down into a dry well at a sewage pump house in Virginia Beach.
Virginia Beach firefighters say they responded to the accident around 9:40 a.m. in the 900 block of Outerbridge Quay in Charlestowne Lakes South.
Firefighters say VBFD’s Technical Rescue Team was able to immobilize the man and extricate him from the well via a haul system and a confined space immobilization device.
He was taken to the hospital, but the extent of his injuries are unknown at this time, VBFD said.
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