A Polish worker who suffered serious injuries after becoming stuck in a potato-sorting machine on a farm in Staffordshire is in a stable condition in hospital.
The 36-year-old was working at Mercer Farming in Barton-under-Needwood and was airlifted to hospital after paramedics worked for two hours to free him.
Owner of the business Mavis Daw told the BBC that the man had been asked to collect potato samples for quality testing and should not have been near the potato sorting machine, which she said was the size of a double-decker bus.
'It's a mystery to us [why he was there], we don't know what he was doing,' she said.
The BBC reported that a West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: “The injuries to the man's arm were extremely serious.”
He remains at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, after the incident happened last Tuesday morning.
The man was working at a unit at Mercer Farming being run by Rugeley-based farmers WB Daw and Sons.
