Rescue workers free individual trapped in trench
The worker has since been taken to the hospital since being freed.
The Asheville Fire Department was on the scene of a trench rescue off Osprey Trail that had one person trapped Tuesday afternoon.
Kelley Klope, the public information officer with the Asheville Fire Department, told News 13 a collapse had the individual trapped from the waist down.
The original call came in at around 2 p.m. When responding crews arrived they found the subject trapped from the chest down. Coworkers and emergency responders immediately started digging to help relieve the pressure on the individual’s chest.