BOSTON—An employee for the Boston area's transit agency has been injured in a 30 foot fall inside a shaft.

A spokesman for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority says a worker for the agency's power department was working on an elevated trolley track near the Charles Street/Massachusetts General Hospital station in Boston at about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday when he fell between the tracks and down a hollowed out concrete support column.

MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo says the man was injured, but the nature of his injuries was not immediately clear. According to broadcast reports, the man was conscious and talking to rescue workers. His name was not made public.

Because of the accident, the T is busing between the Kendall Square and the Broadway stops on the Red Line.

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