A man walking across a busy northwest Houston street stepped into an open manhole and fell 10 feet Tuesday afternoon, according to the Houston Fire Department.
Emergency responders placed the man in neck and back braces as a precaution and transferred him to Memorial Hermann after hoisting him out of the opening, according to Asst. Fire Chief Kevin Alexander.
Private contractors were cleaning and examining city sewer lines with a remote controlled camera from a van next to the manhole at Northwood and North Main when the man walked past two employees, three safety cones and a loud generator and into the hole, according to Parrish Anderson of Cleanserve.
“He walked straight into the hole,” said Anderson, who was outside the van and described the man as disoriented and stumbling before the incident.
The open manhole was not in the crosswalk and a few feet within the intersection.
After the fall, the man was moving around but unresponsive according to Anderson, who tried to talk to him while a co-worker called 911.
The man, whose identity officials are not releasing, was conscious and alert throughout the rescue and did not appear to be under the influence of any substance, according to Alexander.
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