The “coordinated efforts” of emergency responders is being credited for saving the life of a worker who was trapped in a collapsed trench late Monday afternoon in Oakville.

The incident happened shortly before 5 p.m. at a “large new home construction” on Lakeshore Road West at Morden Road, which is just west of Dorval Drive.

According to Oakville Fire Chief Paul Boissonneault, the man fell in the trench, which then collapsed burying him in several feet of dirt.

“Our personnel surveyed the situation, and recognized the patient was talking and coherent and that a specialized extrication for trench was required,” Oakville Fire Chief Paul Boissonneault told CP24 in a statement.

He said then then put in a call for assistance to Mississauga Fire and Emergency Services’ technical trench rescue team, which “with extreme precision secured the ground surrounding the patient and a vacuum truck assisted with some earth removal.”

The worker, who is employed by CDA Landscape Services, was removed from the trench roughly three and a half hours after emergency responders arrived at the scene and taken by pamedics to hospital for monitoring.

The man’s injuries are non-life-threatening, Boissonneault said.

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