A dramatic rescue occurred this morning at the Asa Marshall Bridge construction site southwest of Knoxville.

The incident happened shortly before 9 a.m. Marion County Sheriff Jason Sandholdt tells KNIA/KRLS News the worker was helping set steel beams when he fell approximately 12 feet, landing and breaking through the ice and then into the stream. He went under the ice apparently unconscious, when co-workers were able to pull him to shore.

Injured was George Brown from Chariton. He was taken to Knoxville Hospital and Clinics and later transported by ambulance to a Des Moines hospital in fair condition. Sandholdt says when Brown went into the water, job superintendent Bentley Huebner from Kellogg went in after him. Jon Garrison from Knoxville and Don Stoops from Bussey helped pull Brown to the creek bank, where he started to breathe again. Garrison then went to the crane, and dropped a basket down so Brown could be loaded and brought up out of the ravine to where first responders could more easily treat him when they arrived before being transported. The men are employees of Herberger Construction of Indianola.

Sandholdt offers his praise to the workers who rescued the man, to the quick response by the Knoxville Township Fire Department and Knoxville Fire and Rescue, and to his deputies.