A rescue effort is underway after a worker plunged down a 60-foot hole on Manhattan’s West Side Thursday morning. 

It happened just before 9 a.m. at a construction site at the rail yards at 12th Avenue and 30th Street. 

Chopper 2 flew over the scene. It captured a person in a stretcher being hoisted up from the hole by a crane at around 9:30 a.m. Emergency personnel could be seen treating the person. 

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A look at the construction site where a worker plunged down a hole in Manhattan on Oct. 23, 2025. 

CBS News New York

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