A worker from Millennium Contracting Co. was injured on Saturday when an excavating incident occurred on Hamilton Southeastern Schools’ Deer Creek Elementary project construction site.
Emergency and medical personnel worked several hours to free the individual, Dustin Leake, 35, who has since been released from the hospital and is recovering at home.
Leake had been pumping water from a trench, preparing to install a pipe around 10:30 a.m. when the ground gave way, trapping him up to his shoulders in an 18-foot ditch. The incident remains under investigation.
Hagerman Group, the construction management company for the project released a statement that said, “Hagerman’s biggest concern is for the safety of all workers on our construction sites, so we will be working with the proper entities involved to determine ways in which these types of mishaps can be prevented in the future.”