A 30-year-old man in Dallas, Georgia, found himself trapped under 15 feet and thousands of pounds of gravel in a quarry hopper at Wayne Davis Concrete Company.
It's unclear how the man ended up in the hopper.
But, it's also unclear how he survived.
At first the man was buried up to his torso, and rescue crews began to dig and vacuum away gravel in an attempt to extract him, but that effort caused a cave in. They then ran oxygen lines down to the man, while they worked.
Overall, it took over five hours to extract the man from the gravel.
Paulding County Fire Public Information Officer Steve Mapes said,
"This is just a Christmas miracle. Feeling great that this man was extricated and still alive. He is just really lucky that it ended this way. I have been doing this for 35 years, never seen something where someone was buried that deep and is still alive."
The man was airlifted via helicopter to the hospital, alert and responsive, and only complaining of some back pain and foot pain.
Cobb County Firefighter Parker Lee said,
"Kudos to him. He was a fighter. He wanted to live because the moment we uncovered him he started lifting his head up on his own. He wanted to get out of there. At one point I told him 'You are going to see your family for Christmas.'"
I'm sure this will be a Christmas to remember in that household.
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