Heavy work accident: a man trapped by a tractor

Serious accident at work: man trapped by tractor

STONE CHURCHES A. D. TRAUN. In Steinerkirchen an der Traun, a serious accident at work with a tractor occurred on Monday afternoon

Image: Matthias Lauber

An 83-year-old man was working with his 47-year-old son to repair a vehicle that could no longer be used Tractor occupied. While the 47-year-old man with a huge iron rod was bending the curved teeth of the front fork, the 83-year-old man was on the other side of the tractor.

Probably to increase the front fork, the 83-year-old The tractor is on. Apparently still in gear, the tractor suddenly pulled and jammed the man between the mower deck and the left rear wheel.

His son notified fire and rescue, as well as the neighbor, who lifted the tractor with a forklift could release. The 83-year-old man was rushed to the Wels-Grieskirchen hospital with serious injuries with the rescue helicopter "Christophorus 10."

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