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Man Falls Down Elevator Shaft

POSTED: 1:33 pm CST November 21, 2007
UPDATED: 1:49 pm CST November 21, 2007

A man was rushed to the hospital after he fell about 15 feet down an elevator shaft in Kansas City.

The man was delivering packages to a building on West 13th Terrace near Hickory Street around 9 a.m. when the accident happened.

Fire crews used a pulley system with a rescue basket to get the man out

He was alert and conscious, but does have broken bones, rescue crews said.

The circumstances surrounding his fall have not been released.

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