Staton Breidenthal Little Rock firefighters stand near a hole along Rahling Road, north of Pebble Beach Drive, where a construction worker was injured Friday.
By Arkansas Online
Posted: August 22, 2015
A construction worker was hospitalized after dirt and rocks caved in on him while he was working in a hole in west Little Rock on Friday morning.
The man was taken to Baptist Health Medical Center in Little Rock with head and facial injuries that appeared "very serious," Little Rock Fire Department battalion chief Jimmy Beck said at the scene.
Beck said the man, whose name wasn't yet available, was working in a hole that was about 9 feet deep along Rahling Road, north of Pebble Beach Drive, when rocks and dirt from underneath Rahling Road fell into the hole.
It appeared crews were installing underground storm drains in the area, Beck said.
Rahling Road was closed until about 12:50 p.m. while crews filled in the area under the road where the collapsed dirt and rock had been.