A construction worker has been seriously injured after a retaining slope broke on a building site in central Auckland.

Icon Construction said a 20-kilogram lump of clay trapped the man’s lower body for about 45 minutes on the site of a planned 37-storey hotel development on the corner of Albert St and Wyndham St.

The injured man was lifted onto a stretcher by a crane on the site and was then guided to a waiting ambulance.

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