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Workmates have provided first aid to a man who suffered a serious leg injury in an accident on a Reservoir building site this morning.
Intensive care paramedics from Ivanhoe and advanced life support paramedics from Thomastown were called to the building site just after nine o’clock.
Advanced life support paramedics arrived within seven minutes to find workmates had applied pressure to the man’s injury, and put a splint on his leg.
Intensive care paramedic Evan Reed says the 25 year-old man was pinned by his leg against a fence.
‘A truck was being reversed and pushed the man up against a fence,’ he said.
‘He was pinned by the leg for about 30 seconds.
‘Colleagues quickly began providing first aid and called an ambulance.
‘He was given pain relief through an inhaler while paramedics dressed the wound.
‘The man was in significant pain so a drip was put in both arms and he was given stronger pain relief.
‘He was also given more than two litres of fluid through the drip to help raise his blood pressure which was dangerously low.
‘The man was taken to Royal Melbourne Hospital in a stable condition,’ Mr Reed said.
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