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Worker trapped after concrete wall collapses at farm north of Port Hope

Firefighters are responding to reports of a man trapped after a concrete wall collapsed at a home north of Port Hope. Pete Fisher/Twitter

A construction worker has suffered serious injuries after a concrete wall collapsed at a farm north of Port Hope, Ont., on Tuesday afternoon.

Emergency officials were called around 2:15 p.m. to a farmhouse in the area of Dodds Road off of County Road 10, just north of the community of Welcome.

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There are reports the individual was trapped.

Northumberland OPP say that employees with a construction company were repairing a home at the time when part of the building collapsed.

The injured worker was flown to a Toronto-area trauma centre by an ORNGE air ambulance.

The cause of the collapse remains under investigation

More to come.

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