About 50 emergency personnel worked for more than two and a half hours Tuesday evening to rescue a worker who fell 25 feet into a muddy trench at a Kew Gardens construction site that had been issued a stop work order, according to city officials.
Marcos Castellon, 30, was pinned under hundreds of pounds of mud when he fell into the trench at 119-02 83rd Ave., and it collapsed in part around him, according to the FDNY. Castellon’s coworkers attempted to free him for approximately an hour before calling the FDNY at about 5 p.m., officials said.
Among those helping Castellon, who was stuck in dirt up to his waist, were paramedics to ensure the worker wouldn’t die because of the weight pressing against him. Firefighters secured a backhoe at the site before Con Edison workers used vacuum trucks to remove the dirt from around Castellon, who was eventually transported to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center with injuries that were not life threatening, officials said.
Story by Anna Gustafson
Photos by Richard York and Robert Stridiron
