One worker has died and two others were injured in a trench collapse in Yarmouth, Massachusetts on Tuesday.

The collapse happened in front of the Skipper Chowder House restaurant on South Shore Drive at about 8:30 a.m. during ongoing sewer construction. Yarmouth Fire Chief Enrique Arrascue said at a 2 p.m. press conference that crews are still working to get the man who died out of the trench.

The fire department initially responded to a report of two people trapped in the trench. A third worker "heroically jumped in" to try and help.

Arrascue said it was a "very complicated" rescue effort. The trench kept collapsing as rescuers tried to remove a worker who was buried up to his waist. He was flown to a trauma center in Rhode Island, while the man who jumped in was able to get himself ou

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