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Article: Worker impaled on iron bar after fall ; Accident at factory extension
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- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- September 27, 2000
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A WORKER at a Midland factory suffered horrific injuries when he
slipped down a trench and impaled himself on an iron bar.
The man in his 20s fell four foot down the hole and the iron bar
went through his abdomen.
Sixteen fire-fighters and a paramedic crew were called to rescue
the man from the trench at H Eccles Pattern Makers in Chancel Way,
Coombs Wood, Halesowen today.
Slipped
The accident happened shortly before 11.30am as a team of sub
contractors carried out extension work at the factory.
Sub officer Neil Johnson of ...