Emergency services were called to an Awanui Straight dairy farm, three kilometres north of Kaitaia, yesterday morning when a farm manager became trapped in an effluent pond pump.
John Naera, who was believed to have been suspended waist deep in the pond for an hour or more before he was found and emergency services were called, was freed when a digger was used to lift the pump, enabling him to haul himself backwards along a boom to the bank.
He was initially treated at the scene by a St John ambulance crew before being admitted to Kaitaia Hospital with a broken leg.
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