{"id":263138,"date":"2026-08-11T08:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T08:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/263138\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T08:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T08:48:16","slug":"worker-rescued-after-being-trapped-in-7-foot-deep-hole-in-philadelphias-parkside-section","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/263138\/","title":{"rendered":"Worker rescued after being trapped in 7-foot-deep hole in Philadelphia&#8217;s Parkside section"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Monday, August 10, 2026 10:07PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; A Philadelphia Water Department worker became trapped in a hole about seven feet deep in the Parkside section of Philadelphia on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It happened just before noon in the 1200 block of Belmont Avenue.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chopper over worker trapped in 7-foot-deep hole\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/19657177_081026-wpvi-worker-trapped-chopper-raw-video-C-vid.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Chopper over worker trapped in 7-foot-deep hole<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Crews were called to the scene to pull that worker to safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">They did manage to get the worker out pretty quickly and she was okay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Officials say the worker was performing scheduled maintenance on an underground main, and became stuck in the mud.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, August 10, 2026 10:07PM PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; A Philadelphia Water Department worker became trapped in a hole&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[111230,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-263138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-111230","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}