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Trucker’s trip proves to be near fatal blow

2nd June 2011, Page 11
2nd June 2011
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Page 11, 2nd June 2011 — Trucker’s trip proves to be near fatal blow
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A NEW ZEALAND lorry driver was blown up like a balloon, leaving his skin feeling like roast pork with crackling, when he fell onto a compressed air hose.

Poor Steven McCormack slipped and fell, breaking the compressed air hose of an air reservoir on a brass fitting that pierced his left buttock and started pump ing compressed air into his body.

McCormack told his local newspaper the Whakatane Beacon: “I felt the air rush into my body and I felt like it was going to explode from my foot.

“I was blowing up like a football... it felt like I had the bends, like in diving. I had no choice but just to lay there, blowing up like a balloon.” His colleagues rushed to his res cue after hearing his screams, releas ing a safety valve to stop the air.

McCormack was rushed to hospital where it was discovered that the com pressed air had separated fat from the muscle in his body.

“It’s fair to say he’s lucky to be alive,” a hospital spokeswoman says.

CM suspects he’s probably now recov ering at home, blowing off some steam after a bad air day.

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