Upper East Side construction accident leaves worker injured

UPPER EAST SIDE (WABC) -- A worker was injured during a construction accident on the Upper East Side Wednesday afternoon.

The incident happened around 3:30 p.m. at East 83rd Street and Second Avenue, where Second Avenue subway construction is under way.

The worker was 100 feet down when equipment fell on him.

He reportedly suffered a leg injury, and other workers in the tunnel were able to come to his aid.

A crane that was part of the construction project was brought to the surface while workers harnessed the victim, who was then lifted back up through the hole back to street level.

There, he was loaded onto a backboard and into a waiting ambulance, which rushed him to the to New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center.

The extent of his injury is unknown, but the man was conscious when he was lifted from the hole.