A man was hospitalized Thursday after falling 8 to 12 feet down an elevator shaft in an abandoned building on Pittsburgh\u2019s North Side, police said.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh paramedics, police and firefighters were dispatched around 2:30 p.m. to the building in the 900 block of River Avenue, near the border between the city\u2019s North Shore and Troy Hill neighborhoods, police said.<\/p>\n
Rescue crews said they found the man in the pit of the elevator shaft.<\/p>\n
Four paramedics were lowered down into the space, which was confined, had no light and offered poor ventilation.<\/p>\n
It is unclear what the man, who police did not name, was doing in the building.<\/p>\n
The man was conscious but one of his legs was pinned \u201cfor an unknown period of time,\u201d police said. Paramedics gave him fluids and pain medication, placed him on a board and hoisted him out of the shaft.<\/p>\n
The man was taken to an area hospital in stable condition with \u201cmultiple leg fractures,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n
City inspectors plan to evaluate the building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was hospitalized Thursday after falling 8 to 12 feet down an elevator shaft in an abandoned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-265296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265296","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=265296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}