Tina Fineberg for The New York Times
About 130 firefighters were enlisted Tuesday night to help a construction worker trapped in the mud of a tunnel at the Second Avenue subway project; he was stuck near 95th Street.
A construction worker on the Second Avenue subway project who became stuck in mud up to his waist in a 75-foot-deep tunnel on Tuesday night was freed early Wednesday morning in a four-hour rescue involving more than 100 emergency workers, the authorities said.
It was not immediately clear how the worker, who was not identified, became stuck or what his condition was when he was rescued about 12:30 a.m. He was conscious and was being taken to a hospital.
He was lifted from the hole in a yellow basket suspended from a crane on the surface. When he emerged, he was swaddled in white blankets and rushed on a gurney to a waiting ambulance amid throngs of rescue workers and news photographers.
The episode, which was reported about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, occurred at a construction site on Second Avenue near 95th Street.
By 10 p.m., a Fire Department spokesman said that the worker was "secure" and that emergency responders were attempting to remove debris to free him.
The effort was an ordeal: Consolidated Edison brought in a truck equipped with an industrial vacuum to assist. A firefighter on the scene said emergency workers were descending into a hole on the east side of Second Avenue using ropes, but were getting stuck in the soft mud of the tunnel floor. He said they were using plywood to try to shore up the walls, and that rescuers hoped to extract the worker using the basket. Many of the initial efforts to free the worker failed, officials said.
The Fire Department spokesman said that about 130 Fire Department emergency responders were working to free the man, and about 11 p.m. he said that the worker was conscious and talking, and that a doctor was with him. By midnight, at least two Fire Department rescuers had been sent to the hospital with injuries from the rescue attempt, the spokesman said. Another firefighter covered in mud who said he had been in the hole for half an hour called it "a nightmare."
Near the corner of Second Avenue and 95th Street, the vacuum truck loudly slurped mud from the tunnel where the worker was trapped. Rescue workers said that they hoped sucking out the debris would release the worker.
Earlier in the night, crowds gathered on both sides of Second Avenue, as onlookers tried to get a glimpse through a scrum of rescue workers.
William Lopez, a retired assistant commissioner for the health department who lives in the neighborhood, said he had not seen anything like it since construction on the Second Avenue subway line began.
"I just hope they get the guy out," Mr. Lopez said. "I'm sure there'll be an investigation."
Alex Vadukul contributed reporting.
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