South Yorkshire Fire And Rescue Service


7th April 2008

Man Trapped Under Forklift Truck

A man was taken to hospital in Sheffield after becoming trapped underneath the forklift truck he was driving.

Firefighters were called to the premises of Coe-Crete on Colliery Road in Wincobank at around 12.30 this afternoon.

Crews were quickly on the scene, and found the injured man had been removed from underneath the vehicle by some of his work colleagues.

He appeared to have jumped from the vehicle, fearing it was about to tip over, but ended up underneath it, and was dragged for a short distance.

Firefighters administered oxygen to the man, in his 20s, and assisted the ambulance crew, before he was taken to the Northern General hospital with serious injuries to his lower body.

RTC - Flouch

South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue attended a serious road traffic collision on the A628, Flouch in Barnsley this morning.

Fire crews were alerted to the incident at 11:09am.  Four appliances attended along with two Incident Support Units.

The incident which involved three vehicles, one of which was a HGV.  Chemicals were in the HGV and were leaking out which caused concern.  It was confirmed that the chemical was not harmful.

There were no casualties at the incident and the last appliance left the scene at 2:07pm.