FEBRUARY 13, 2015
GREELEY, COLORADO
A team of firefighters in northern Colorado engineered a
“technical rescue” after a construction worker survived a 30-foot fall earlier
this week.
According to a report from the Denver Post, the worker fell
around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday morning at a building jobsite in Greeley.
When firefighters responded to the scene they found the man
in a difficult to access portion of the unfinished building.
Undeterred, the fire crew rigged up a crane of their own
using ropes, a pulley and their truck’s ladder to extract the injured worker.
The rescue took more than an hour to complete. The
worker’s identity and condition were not released.
According to the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration, falls are the number one cause of death in construction
industry accidents.