If you have suffered an injury at work or on the job, you may be entitled to receive additional benefits through workers compensation. In North Carolina, this may include time lost from work, disability (full or partial), and medical bills.
APEX, N.C. -- The site of the Western Wake Freeway (N.C. 540) extension project became the scene of a tense, hour-long rescue Saturday, after a worker was injured in a 20-foot trench.
Heavy rescue crews, search-and-rescue task forces, firefighters, and EMS crews were called to the site around 11:30 a.m. Saturday, after a rock apparently rolled into the trench while the worker was inside.
Only Eyewitness News was there as crews were shuttled from a command post on Old Holly Springs Apex Road, to the accident site about a quarter-mile down a dirt road.
Crews were forced to perform a technically-challenging vertical lift to get the injured worker out of the trench.
Officials with Raleigh-Durham Road Builders, the project's contractor, say he suffered a broken arm, and a bruised leg, but is expected to be okay.
He was airlifted to WakeMed in stable condition, and will be kept overnight as a precaution.
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