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<\/p>\nAn abattoir worker who was agonisingly trapped in a meat grinder for more than two-and-a-half hours has suffered serious injuries to both his legs.<\/p>\n
Rescue teams rushed to the meat processing plant in Young, in south-west New South Wales, Australia, today, October 20, at 9.30am local time, reports Mail Online.<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old victim was put into an induced coma before being flown to hospital in Canberra, where his condition was serious but stable.<\/p>\n
Ambulances, paramedics and a doctor rushed to the scene, where firefighters and paramedics desperately worked to free the man.<\/p>\n
The ambulance service\u2019s Inspector Stephen Pollard said it was a complicated rescue operation.<\/p>\n
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He said: \u201cIt must have been really hard for the patient, who was in a fair bit of pain before paramedics arrived. We gave him some relief and then began the task of getting him free.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a particularly delicate and protracted incident to free the man from the machinery, which was about five metres off the ground on a platform.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was stuck for a long time but his colleagues were there with him throughout providing physical and mental support. They did a great job.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Earlier this year, a factory worker was killed after she was sucked into a giant meat grinding machine in Russia.<\/p>\n
Distressing CCTV from the poultry farm in the Kaluga region showed the woman removing and stacking chicken carcasses before her hand became trapped in the rotating conveyor.<\/p>\n
She was dragged and sucked into the grinder before another colleague managed to stop the machine.<\/p>\n
In late 2019, a 47-year-old in Malaysia died after he fell into an industrial meat grinder that shredded him up to his waist.<\/p>\n
He was carrying out maintenance with three other men when he fell into the machine and it was suddenly turned on.<\/p>\n
And in 2019, Jill Greninger, 35, was killed instantly when she fell into a meat grinder from a set of stairs on wheels in Pennsylvania, in the United States.<\/p>\n