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Driver trapped under digger at Ansty near Haywards Heath prompts 999 alert
simcas digger incident ansty
A digger driver was trapped for about 90 minutes when the machine tipped on to him.
Emergency services were called to Ansty, Haywards Heath, West Sussex where a man had fallen under and become trapped by a small mechanical digger.
The digger had tipped over whilst the man was working in the rear garden of a house.
The crew of the Sussex and Surrey Air Ambulance worked together with Dr Alan Pearce of SIMCAS and paramedics from South East Coast Ambulance service to treat his injuries. Rescue crews from West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service lifted the digger from the casualty using a combination of winches and inflatable airbags. The digger driver was trapped for about an hour and half before he could be released. He was taken by land ambulance to The Royal Sussex County Hospital, because it was too dark to fly him there, accompanied by the helicopter medical team.
After the incident on Saturday afternoon Dr Alan Pearce from SIMCAS said “This was quite a difficult entrapment: the victim was almost entirely under the digger and initially we could only reach one of his arms – this made treatment very difficult. We could still assess his vital signs and give him pain killing drugs until he could be freed. With excellent teamwork between the medical and Fire and Rescue Services we got a good end result.”
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Weather for Haywards Heath
Sunday 27 May 2012
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