UPDATE: The worker has been rescued .

The previous story from Aug. 28, 2025, is below.

A worker is trapped in a large hole after a trench collapsed at a construction site in Charleroi, prompting a massive rescue operation.

Dozens of first responders from multiple departments and several counties responded to the scene near the intersection of McKean Avenue and Eighth Street on Thursday night. Dispatchers said the call for help came in around 8:20 p.m.

Charleroi Fire Chief Robert Whiten Jr. said the trench is about 15 feet deep, and the worker became buried from the chest down when it collapsed. The worker is alive and "in good spirits," Whiten said.

"The guys, the EMS, and I have a paramedic in my department, they've been down there giving him IVs and doing all the things that th

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