CUMMING - A construction worker trapped for nearly 12 hours after a trench collapsed at a new subdivision in Forsyth County is hospitalized in Tennessee.
The man -- whose name has not been released -- was flown to Erlanger Medical Center in Chattanooga after being pulled from the trench about 8:40 a-m Tuesday.
He became trapped around 9 p-m Monday as a crew was digging sewer lines at the subdivision construction site. The subdivision south of Cumming is called the Manor Golf and Country Club. It is about half a mile west of Georgia Nine and about three miles west of Georgia 400.
The work was being done by J-B Stevens Construction Company of Gainesville.
The owner of the company -- Brit Stevens -- was at the scene during the rescue. He said after the man was rescued that he was arranging for the employee's family to join him at the hospital in Tennessee.
Stevens says there was no safety violation at the site. He told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- quote -- ``It was just bad dirt. We just got a hold of bad materials out there.''
But, an Occupational Safety and Health Administration official is quoted by the paper as saying the scene is "very, very dangerous looking," adding it will take weeks, however, to piece together what it was like before the rescue began.
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May 23rd, 2025
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