A 19-year-old was transported to the hospital Sunday afternoon after being rescued from waist deep mud in Agency.

Col. Bill Puett with the Buchanan County Sheriff’s Department said emergency crews were called out to MM and Rock Creek road in Agency early Sunday afternoon to rescue a man who got stuck in the mud while hunting with his friends.

“He tried to jump the creek bank and didn’t make it and sunk down in the mud and went down up to his waist in mud,” Puett said.

Crews from the Buchanan County Sheriff’s Department, Buchanan County EMS, South Central Fire and other emergency responders arrived on scene to help pull the man out of the mud.  Puett said they had to rope him and dig and use a rope rigging system of sorts to get the man free.

Puett said the man was stuck for about 20 minutes before his friends called for assistance after trying to pull him out first.  All together he was stuck in the mud for about 40 minutes before emergency crews arrived on scene.

He was transported to Mosaic Life Care for evaluation and was treated and released.