A man has died after he was trapped under a forklift on a farm in the state\u2019s north.<\/p>\n
Shortly after 1pm yesterday (Tuesday 20 January 2014), police and emergency services were called to a property in Moonbi, near Tamworth, after a man became stuck under a forklift.<\/p>\n
Upon arriving at the location, police and ambulance paramedics were directed to a 76-year-old man who was trapped under a forklift that had rolled into a creek bed on the farm.<\/p>\n
A trauma doctor was called to the scene and, with the assistance of paramedics, amputated the man\u2019s legs in order to free him from underneath the forklift.<\/p>\n
He was taken to Tamworth Base Hospital and underwent emergency surgery but died a short time later.<\/p>\n
Police will now prepare a report for the Coroner, outlining the full circumstances surrounding the man\u2019s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has died after he was trapped under a forklift on a farm in the state\u2019s north. Shortly after 1pm yesterday (Tuesday 20 January 2014), police and emergency services were called to a property in Moonbi, near Tamworth, after a man became stuck under a forklift. Upon arriving at the location, police and ambulance … Continue reading “Man dies after becoming trapped under forklift near Tamworth”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tcrn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}