Clarkstown Police have identified the worker stuck for more than two hours in a collapsed trench Friday afternoon as Lucas Morel, 21, from Norwalk, CT. He was airlifted to Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, no further information is available. Morel was employed by Rain King Basement Systems of New City.

On Friday at 1:25 p.m., the Clarkstown Police and other emergency services responded to 13 Germonds Road in New City to aid a worker trapped in a six foot deep trench with mud up to his chest. Morel was caught when the walls of the trench in which he was working collapsed on him. He was reported to have been conscious when rescued.