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

Sheriff Jason Sandholdt told KNIA/KRLS News on scene a construction worker was helping set steel beams for the bridge 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 is in 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 also praised the Knoxville Township Fire Department, Knoxville Fire and Rescue, and his deputies for their quick response.