Wigan depot worker seriously injured after being run over by his own pallet truck

The worker’s left leg was trapped under the heavy machinery which also pinned him up against shelving in the freak incident at the Ingersoll-Rand engineering plant on Swan Lane, Hindley Green.

Fire crews from Hindley, Atherton and Leigh faced a race against the clock to free the stricken 35-year-old as paramedics were unable to treat him properly until he was released.