Toronto fire crews rescued a man who was trapped between a construction elevator and the exterior of a midtown Toronto condo development for more than an hour Monday.

Around 10:20 a.m., the fire department said it received reports of a man trapped outside the eighth floor of 99 Broadway Ave., a condo under construction near Eglinton Avenue East and Mt. Pleasant Road.

According to the fire department, he was wedged between an elevator and the exterior of the building.

Toronto Fire performed what it called a high-angle rescue to lower the man safely to the ground, where he was taken to the hospital.

Paramedics said the man had serious but non life-threatening injuries.

The rescue took an hour and 15 minutes in total, Toronto Fire said.

“High-angle rescues are a core service we provide,” fire chief Matthew Pegg told media at the scene.

“In a city as vertical as Toronto, both above-grade and below, crews frequently find themselves in situations of having to deal with this kind of rescue. That’s why we’re trained and equipped for situations like these.”

A high-angle rescue is a specialized rescue technique used to retrieve people stranded on steep slopes or structure surfaces. The technique involves the use of rope to lower the person who is stranded.

“To do this kind of operation at ground-level is complicated enough. To do it while working off ropes in a high-angle situation, eight storeys above ground, is extremely complicated,” Pegg said. “These are the circumstances we’re trained for and need to deal with and I’m always proud of and encouraged by the technical work that our fire crews do.”

Oct. 28, 2019 — Correction: This story has been updated from a previously published version with the latest information that the worker was on the eighth floor and not the 10th.