AGUILA, Ariz. (KSAZ/AP) -- We now know the identity of a man who was rescued from a mine shaft near Aguila, having been trapped there since Monday. According to MCSO, the man fell into the 100-foot-deep shaft on Monday but was not located until Wednesday. Waddell was found by his friend, identified as Terry Schrader, on Wednesday near Eagle Eye Road and Mile Post 13, which is south of Aguila.  The victim that was rescued from the mine shaft today was airlifted to a local hospital with non life threatening injuries. He is a male in his 60’s and we are looking forward to his recovery. Despite surrounding caution signs, Waddell was alone when he fell into the 100-foot gold mine shaft Monday. "He had called me Monday, and told me he was coming to the mine," Schrader said. And we always had a deal, if he is not back by Tuesday [to come check on him].” 
 
 Waddell never came back, and Shrader had a bad feeling. “Since he didn’t come home yesterday, I was bound determined to come out here today,” he said, expressing guilt he did not check sooner. "As I pulled up my truck, I could hear him hollering help, help, you know," said Schrader. — @SgtJEnriquez (@SgtJEnriquez) October 18, 2018 
 
 FOX 10's Matt Rodewald learns that the man, 62-year-old John Waddell, was rescued without any life-threatening injuries.
– An Arizona man should be a bit more comfortable in a hospital bed having spent two days stuck at the bottom of a 100-foot mine shaft. Believed to have been descending into the gold mine shaft near Aguila, 90 miles northwest of Phoenix, when he fell Monday, 62-year-old John Waddell suffered two broken legs, per FOX 10. But his hardships didn't end there. The father also battled three rattlesnakes (now dead) and severe dehydration over 48 hours without food or water before a neighbor discovered him Wednesday. Terry Schrader had agreed to check on Waddell at the shaft if he didn't return by Tuesday, though it was Wednesday before he actually went searching. "I was afraid of what I was going to find," Schrader says. "As I pulled up my truck, I could hear him hollering, 'Help, help.'" Schrader adds, per ABC15, that "the carabiner broke, I guess, and he supposedly fell 40 to 50 feet." Though Waddell had a phone, there was no cell service; Schrader had to drive out of the desert to call authorities. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office organized the rescue beginning around 2pm, reports the Arizona Republic. It took more than six hours and a team of more than a dozen before Waddell could be airlifted to a hospital. "We are looking forward to his recovery," an MCSO rep says. Regardless of his screams as he was removed from the shaft, "he's a tough guy," Schrader says. (Rescuers decided to abandon efforts to pull a man out of a Nevada mine shaft.)