Toronto firefighters rescue 2 workers from trench after construction site accident

CBC News

· Posted: Jun 02, 2025 3:20 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

Two antheral operation workers were taken to a infirmary aft being rescued from a trench pursuing a operation tract accident, Toronto Fire Services say.

Just earlier noon connected Monday, Toronto constabulary responded to an concern mishap telephone astatine a Weston Road and Edmund Avenue operation site.

A partition reportedly collapsed astatine the site, constabulary say, starring 2 workers to get stuck successful the ungraded of a trench.

Both workers were stuck astir 8 feet down and buried up to their waists, according to an update provided astatine the country by John Davidson, divisional main of method operations for Toronto Fire.

It took firefighters an hr to extricate the archetypal idiosyncratic from the trench, Davidson said, aft which helium was taken to a hospital. 

The 2nd idiosyncratic was rescued astir 40 minutes aboriginal and was besides transported to a hospital, helium said. 

There are conflicting reports connected the information of the 2 workers.

Davidson said lone the archetypal idiosyncratic sustained important injuries, portion the 2nd worker's injuries are apt not arsenic critical. 

However, paramedics told CBC Toronto some workers are successful life-threatening condition. 

The crushed it took so long to extricate the workers, Davidson said, is due to the fact that trench rescue is much analyzable than radical whitethorn think. 

"Prior to america doing diligent removal, it's captious that we get the aesculapian attraction by pushing fluids, [so that] erstwhile we commencement releasing each that worldly distant from the body, we don't person a abrupt clang associated with clang syndrome," helium said.

Police accidental Weston Road between Jane Street and Denison Road E. is closed to postulation and drivers should expect delays successful the area.