It's pretty close to the best-possible scenario for one worker in Washington County that got rescued from a trench early Friday morning, but many questions still remain after that trench collapsed Thursday night.

Multiple departments here from several counties swarmed the area around the 15-foot trench to help make this rescue Thursday on McKean Ave.

"Thank God he only suffered very minor injuries," Charleroi Borough Manager Joe Manning said.

Late-night rescue operations stretch into early morning

The first call came in around 8:30 on Thursday night , with the man being buried from the chest down.

An array of first responders spent hours trying to free the trapped worker. Charleroi's fire chief, Robert Whiten Jr., says they used a vacuum truck to get down in the trench – where the

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