By EMS1 Staff
BETHESDA, Md. — Rescue crews extricated a worker who had fallen between an escalator and a wall.
Bethesda Magazine reported that the worker was removing lights at the Bethesda Metro Station and standing on the slope next to the escalator when a wire spool from above fell and hit him, causing him to get stuck between the wall and the escalator, according to Montgomery County Fire & Rescue PIO Pete Piringer.
The crew worked along the escalator to remove the man, who was stuck about halfway up. The escalator is the second longest in the Western Hemisphere, according to the report.
“He was in a precarious place there,” Piringer said.
The crew conducted a “slope evacuation” by strapping him into a Stokes basket and lowering him down with a rope. He was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
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