Trucker impaled on metal pipe
A garbage truck driver was impaled on a metal pipe after it pierced the cabin of his vehicle. The accident occurred as the man drove through a partially opened gate at a Harvey Norman store at Aspley, on Brisbane’s northside.
“A piece of galvanised pipe penetrated just above the knee and came out through his buttocks,” a spokesman for the Queensland Fire and Rescue Service said.
Rescue workers used hacksaws to cut the pipe and he was rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery.
He was in a serious but stable condition, the spokeswoman said.
