On Tuesday afternoon, a 59-year-old man from Styria lost control of his tractor in the Hartberg area. The man jumped out of the vehicle and was seriously injured.
At around 3:35 p.m., the man from the Hartberg-Fürstenfeld district was busy with agricultural work on a steeply sloping meadow. The farmer removed a rootstock and loaded it onto a trailer. The 59-year-old then drove down the meadow. While driving, he lost control of the vehicle combination. The farmer then jumped off the tractor and remained injured in the meadow. Difficult vehicle recovery The tractor continued into an adjacent wooded area, where it overturned and finally came to a standstill. After the first aid by the fire brigade and the Red Cross, the rescue brought the man to the LKH Hartberg with a suspected serious leg injury. The voluntary fire brigades Schildbach and Hartberg were entrusted with the vehicle recovery, which turned out to be extremely difficult.
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