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TRENCH COLLAPSE RESCUED WORKER IN CRITICAL STATE.


Byline: Daily News

VAN NUYS -- A 25-year-old construction worker was hospitalized in critical condition Wednesday after he was trapped under hundreds of pounds of moist moist

having a moderate moisture content, slightly wet to the touch.


moist dermatitis
see moist dermatitis of rabbits.

moist grain storage
grain stored at about 30% moisture in airtight silos.
 soil from a collapsed excavation excavation

In archaeology, the exposure, recording, and recovery of buried material remains. The techniques employed vary by the type of site, but all forms of archaeological excavation require great skill and careful preparation.
 trench, officials said.

The worker was standing in a trench for a new sewer line Noun 1. sewer line - a main in a sewage system
sewer main

main - a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage
 when the walls collapsed, trapping trapping, most broadly, the use of mechanical or deceptive devices to capture, kill, or injure animals. It may be applied to the practice of using birdlime to capture birds, lobster pots to trap lobsters, and seines to catch fish.  him with only his head and one shoulder exposed, Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey said.

Dozens of firefighters and rescue team members responded to the 9:55 a.m. incident in the 5300 block of Woodman Avenue, where a two-story home was under construction.

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(1 -- 2) Above and at left, Los Angeles Fire Department The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), also known as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles.  firefighters work to free a construction worker trapped under hundreds of pounds of soil when a trench collapsed in the 5300 block of Woodman Avenue in Van Nuys Wednesday morning.

Hans Gutknecht/Staff Photographer
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:May 25, 2006
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