Man trapped by huge bale of straw

The 21-year-old man suffered a leg injury in the incident, which took place in a field off Sugar Loaf Lane, Iverley, near Stourbridge.

An air ambulance, ground medics, firefighters and police all rushed to the scene, and were able to free the man whose leg was trapped underneath the large pile of hay.

He required treatment at the scene and was put on a stretcher and given pain relief before being flown to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham by the Midlands Air Ambulance charity after the accident at around 2.15pm on Thursday

A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: "We can confirm that we were called to a field in Sugar Loaf Lane,shortly after 2.15pm on Thursday.

"An ambulance, a paramedic area support officer, the Trust's Hazardous Area Response Team and the Midlands Air Ambulance from Cosford attended the scene.

"Ambulance staff arrived to find a man, believed to be in his 20s, whose leg was trapped underneath a bale of hay.

"Once freed, the man, who remained conscious throughout, was treated for a leg injury, immobilised and given pain relief before being airlifted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham."

The ambulance service's Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) shared several photos of the incident on Twitter, which showed numerous emergency staff gathered around the tower of hay, as well as of them loading the patient into the air ambulance, and it flying off towards the hospital.

Sharing the photos on their Twitter feed, the WMAS HART team said: "Yesterday we worked with @StaffsFire @KinverPolice @MAA_Charity @OFFICIALWMAS crews to recover a man trapped underneath fallen hay bales."

Staffordshire Fire also tweeted about the incident, adding: "A crew from Kinver helped to free a 21-year-old man who was trapped between an 8ft high bale of straw and a tractor on Sugarloaf Ln, Iverley."

A spokesman for the fire service confirmed that they attended at 2.42pm, but were not needed any further and left the incident with the ambulance service at 3.27pm.