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Lancashire farmer 'slips' from tractor and sustains 'significant' thigh injury

Rossendale and Pendle Mountain Rescue Team were called to the scene near Coldwell Reservoir in Nelson

Chris Brayford
clock • 1 min read
The farmer had sustained a deep laceration to their thigh which narrowly avoided a blood vessel (Rossendale and Pendle Mountain Rescue Team)
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The farmer had sustained a deep laceration to their thigh which narrowly avoided a blood vessel (Rossendale and Pendle Mountain Rescue Team)

A farmer who sustained a ‘significant' injury to their thigh after slipping from a tractor in Lancashire was ‘lucky' to be alive after narrowly avoiding blood vessels. Rossendale and Pendle Mountain...

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