{"id":34461,"date":"2026-02-27T14:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/after-more-than-4-hours-crews-free-worker-pinned-under-concrete\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:44:17","slug":"after-more-than-4-hours-crews-free-worker-pinned-under-concrete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/after-more-than-4-hours-crews-free-worker-pinned-under-concrete\/","title":{"rendered":"After more than 4 hours, crews free worker pinned under concrete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>TORONTO \u2013 Toronto police and fire have reported a male worker that was pinned under concrete at a construction site in the Lansdowne Avenue and Davenport Road area of the city has been freed.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was called in around 10:19 a.m. and Toronto Fire reported just after 11:30 a.m. they were performing a confined space rescue at the site. A tweet from Toronto Fire at 2:50 p.m. stated crews were continuing the technical operation to free and rescue the worker, who was trapped three to four metres down beside the building. Just after 3 p.m., it was announced he was rescued.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The extent of the worker\u2019s injuries were termed serious but non-life threatening. It was reported his legs had been pinned but he was conscious during the rescue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lansdowne Avenue is closed in both directions between Davenport Road and Dupont Street.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Labour has been notified.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/ohs\/2026\/02\/breaking-toronto-police-report-worker-trapped-after-wall-collapse\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] TORONTO \u2013 Toronto police and fire have reported a male worker that was pinned under concrete at a construction &#8230; <a title=\"After more than 4 hours, crews free worker pinned under concrete\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/after-more-than-4-hours-crews-free-worker-pinned-under-concrete\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about After more than 4 hours, crews free worker pinned under concrete\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037],"tags":[357,295],"class_list":["post-34461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-commercial-news","tag-blog","tag-technology","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}