Man injured after being trapped in Machinery
A man has this afternoon been airlifted to hospital after he became trapped in machinery in south Shropshire.
The incident happened at a property on Station Road in Woofferton shortly after 2.30pm.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: “When crews arrived they found a man, believed to be in his 30s, who was mechanically trapped by his arm in a piece of industrial machinery.
“The man was immediately given strong pain relief to help stabilise his condition before crews and the doctors worked with the fire service to carefully extricate him from the machinery.
“After a delicate operation taking around an hour, the man was released from the machinery. The man sustained a serious arm and hand injury and a nasty laceration to his leg. His wounds were cleaned and dressed and he was placed onto a scoop stretcher before being carried to the awaiting air ambulance.
“The man was airlifted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, one of the region’s specialist trauma centres, for further assessment and treatment.”
