A man rescued from an east-end Barrie apartment building construction site Tuesday night had non-life-threatening injuries when taken to Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH).
Barrie police communications co-ordinator Jennett Mays said Wednesday morning the male is in his 30s.
Barrie Fire and Emergency Services (BFES) were called to 37 Johnson St., just after 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Deputy Chief Ed Davis said there had been a trench collapse, but that Barrie firefighters had access to a man and that he was in stable condition.
"He was on a lower-level floor, working on a cement wall or a cement part of the construction, when a pier form or a cement form above him fell on him, or pieces of it fell on him, so he had quite a heavy load that actually fell on (him)," Davis said Wednesday.
Davis said the man was removed from the construction site at about 9 p.m. and placed into the care of paramedics before being rushed to RVH.
The Ministry of Labour was notified and was to commence its investigation Wednesday morning.
Construction has been ongoing on the Shoreview, an 11-storey rental apartment tower on 37 Johnson St. — right behind Imperial Towers, which is also 11 storeys, for some time now.
Shoreview will have 215 units in its 11 storeys behind Imperial Towers, which has 192, for a total of 407.
