An employee working at a cranberry bog in Carver became stuck in the mud on Tuesday, requiring the help of firefighters to pull him out.
The Carver Fire Department confirmed to MassLive on Wednesday that the worker became stuck in the bog’s silt, with water up to his waist and about six feet from the shoreline. The name of the bog was not released.
The side of the bog, made up of gravel and sand placed there recently, gave way as he was trying to pick cranberries, Carver Deputy Fire Chief Eric Germaine told the Boston Globe Tuesday night.
“He was calm, he wasn’t really in much distress,” Germaine told the newspaper. “But he was definitely stuck.”
Firefighters arrived at around 2 p.m. to save the worker, donning wetsuits before going in to save him, the fire department said.
Emergency services inspected the worker to find that he was not injured, Germaine told the Globe.
Of the 33 years serving with the fire department, Germaine said to the Globe that a rescue out of a cranberry bog was “not typical.”
