Worker airlifted to hospital after incident at Shelley farm

Jan 14 2009 by Sam Casey, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

AN ICE cream worker was airlifted to hospital after an accident left him with a metal bar through his hand.

The man, believed to be in his 30s, got his hand trapped in a milking machine at Bank House Farm in Shelley, which runs Dearne Lea Ice Cream and Tearoom.

Fire crews from Skelmanthorpe and Huddersfield, and a major rescue unit from Leeds, were called to the Bank House Lane farm at about 9am yesterday.

They used an angle grinder to cut the bar either side of the victim’s hand but left a section lodged in his hand.

He was taken by Yorkshire Air Ambulance to the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield for treatment.