PICTURED: Digger falls 50 FEET into a rubbish pit
This was the remarkable scene after a digger plummeted 20 metres into a pit of rubbish in the West Midlands today.
Emergency services launched a three-hour rescue operation after a man became trapped as a result of the fall.
Sharing the dramatic picture on social media, West Midlands Fire Service told its 40,000 Twitter followers: "This is not a Tonka toy."
West Midlands Ambulance Service said it was called to the waste facility on Bar Road in Coventry shortly after 10.30am.
West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman Claire Brown said said: “Hazardous area response team paramedics worked closely with the fire service’s technical rescue team to help rescue the man from the 50ft-deep pit.
"The operation took around three hours due to the difficulties of the location.
"The man was treated on scene for relatively minor injuries before being taken by land ambulance to University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire.”
