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Article: Injured South Pole worker airlifted to New Zealand after fight on ice
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- December 26, 2007
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A man working at the U.S. South Pole station was flown to New Zealand for hospital treatment for a damaged jaw after a Christmas fight with another worker, a U.S. National Science Foundation spokesman said Thursday.
The man, whose name was not released by his employer, U.S. company Raytheon Polar Services, had to be flown out on a medical evacuation flight, NSF spokesman Peter West said.
"There was an altercation between two people ... there's no indication of the cause or of the background between the two folks," he said.
A ski-equipped U.S. Air Force Hercules airplane made an unscheduled flight from the U.S. base McMurdo Station, near New Zealand's Scott ...