YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) -- Repairs continue on a sinkhole that opened along Midlothian Boulevard. It's a big project that is much more than patching a pipe.

Two workers stood 12 feet underground Monday in the hole that opened last week on Midlothian Boulevard.

"It was the sewer manhole that broke, just due to age," said Chuck Sasho, Youngstown Public Works deputy director. "Those are the things you can't rely [on finding] with an inspection because sometimes you don't see it from inside the manhole or the sewer."

The hole was big enough to fit a car. It's been dug out even more for the repairs.

Sasho believes the manhole could've been built maybe in the 1930s or '40s. It was constructed out of bricks. A few remain on the floor of the hole. The bricks, though, are like a house of cards:

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