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Boston transit worker rescued after 30-foot fall down narrow shaft

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An MBTA spokesman said the worker fell down a 2-foot-by-2-foot hole between train tracks.

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BOSTON — A worker with the Boston-area's transit agency has been rescued and sent to a hospital with injuries after a 30-foot fall between tracks at a train station.

Firefighters pulled Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority electrician Ed Rowe from inside a hollow concrete support column at about 7 a.m. Wednesday.

An MBTA spokesman says the 46-year-old Rowe was working on an elevated trolley track near the Charles/Massachusetts General Hospital station in Boston at about 4:30 a.m. when he fell between the tracks and down a 2-foot-by-2-foot hole that widens at the bottom

A fire department spokesman says Rowe was conscious but in "extreme pain" from leg injuries during the rescue.

Normal service resumed on the train line at 8 a.m.


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