Pictures and video: Man impaled on spike at Whitchurch farm
An elderly man was rescued by emergency services after his knee became impaled on a tractor spike.
The man had become stuck on the bailing spike at about 10.30am this morning at a farm in Coton, near Whitchurch.
Four fire engines, ambulances and police were on the scene working to release the man.
A number of methods were tried by fire crews from Wem, Prees and the rescue tender from Wellington.
He was released using a Stihl saw - an electric cutting saw by about 11.50am and was then moved to a field over the road where an air ambulance had arrived.
He was airlifted to hospital in Stoke.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: "The tractor spike went into his right knee.
"The man who is in his eighties was conscious and stable throughout the rescue. The fire service cut the spike free from the tractor, but it remained in his leg. Ambulance crews managed the wound with the spike in situ and gave him fluids, analgesia and oxygen.Preparations were in place in case of a haemorrhage and he was flown to Royal Stoke University Hospital."
