Worker fell 30 feet inside water treatment facility

Fire rescue assists

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Posted: 11/02/2010

GREENACRES, Fla. - A welding contrator in his fifties has been injured after falling 30 feet inside of a water tank at a water treatment facility Tuesday morning.

Palm Beach County Fire Rescue responded to the call around 9:30 a.m.

According to PBC Fire Rescue, the tank was empty at the time of the fall. The man  was transported via trauma hawk  to Delray Medical Center.

His injuries do not appear to be life-threatening.

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