A bolt in a tractor driver's pocket went into his leg and caused serious bleeding when he slipped and fell off the tractor near Blenheim yesterday afternoon.
His boss used his belt to make a tourniquet to stop the bleeding until emergency services arrived.
Piquant Garlic co-owner Alan Jones and his brother were planting onions with driver James Cresswell, 67, in a paddock alongside Boyces Rd in Rapaura about 1.30pm when Mr Cresswell lost his footing getting out of the tractor.
Mr Cresswell had a 10-millimetre bolt in his pocket which went into his leg as he landed, Mr Jones said.
He remembered his first aid training and wrapped his belt around Mr Cresswell's leg to stop the bleeding.
Mr Jones did not know how bad the injury was, but treated it as life-threatening.
"When there's someone in need you can't just stand around and look at them," he said.
St John Ambulance operations team manager Rebecca Lee said Mr Cresswell was taken to Wairau Hospital, in Blenheim, with a serious leg injury. A spokeswoman for Nelson Marlborough District Health Board, Brandon Kay, said Mr Cresswell was in a comfortable condition this morning.
A spokesman for the Department of Labour said they were investigating the accident, but he was not sure how long the process would take.
Police and the Renwick and Woodbourne volunteer fire brigades were also called to the accident.
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- The Marlborough Express
SIMON WONG
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