A short while ago IPSS Medical Rescue alongside IPSS Search and Rescue received reports of a farming accident in the Isnembe area.
On arrival of paramedics and rescue personnel it was established that a farmworker had become entrapped under a stack of sugar cane weighing approximately 7 tons.
The man was extricated from beneath the sugar cane with the use of cranes and was then stabilised by IPSS Medical Rescue Advanced Life Support paramedics.
Due to the critical nature of the injuries sustained the man was airlifted to a level one trauma facility by the Netcare911 helicopter.
Man crushed by stack of sugar cane in Isinembe https://t.co/YRE7mNkfu8#ArriveAlive @IPSSRescue @TruckAndFreight pic.twitter.com/JPiZwFa4xz
– Arrive Alive (@_ArriveAlive) June 14, 2023
