A blind man fell down a construction site hole on a sidewalk in Gretna, Louisiana, as shown in a home surveillance system video shared by WLWT.

The video shows a man walking with a cane on the sidewalk of a deserted street, when suddenly he falls into a construction site hole that was surrounded by orange fencing mesh. The head of the man can be seen popping out of the hole, which luckily was not too deep.

The blind man can then be seen struggling to get himself out of the hole. A red truck is seen approaching the hole and the driver gets out of the vehicle to help the man.

The incident took place on Saturday afternoon, eyewitness Joseph Lalley told WDSU, on a site where construction company Atmos Energy was working, according to WLWT.

"This is our neighborhood, and we care about people," Lalley told the station. "It just happened that quick," he said. "My wife and I both watched him walk straight into the hole. Non-stop. No warning."

The man was identified as Frederick Allen, who lives in the neighborhood. Allen has reported no injuries after the fall, according to WLWT, only some soreness.

"My worst fear was [that nobody would] see me, but I'm thankful that my neighbors down there, they saw me," Allen told WLWT. "Just be mindful of construction and other things around you."

Lalley then reached out to Atmos Energy warning about the danger of the site and said that the company had placed mesh and stakes to block off the hole in the sidewalk.

"If you know you have four holes down here, block the sidewalk off," Lalley told WDSU.

The city's mayor Belinda Constant told WDSU that she had also been in contact with the construction company and would follow up on safety concerns.

Atmos Energy is the largest natural gas-only distributor in the U.S., according to the company, which has its headquarters in Dallas. Atmos Energy serves more than 3 million customers in 14,000 communities in Colorado, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.

In 2018, two men working at an Atmos Energy facility in Farmersville, 35 miles northeast of Dallas, died after the natural gas pipeline they were servicing exploded, as reported by Zehl & Associates.

In the same year, 12-year-old Linda "Michelita" Rogers died in Dallas after an explosion in her family home caused by a natural gas leak. The incident was later found to have been preventable by inspectors and Atmos Energy was penalized $1.6 million for failing to detect and act on the leak.

Newsweek has reached out to Atmos Energy for comment.

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