07:39 am, Friday 28 November, 2008

Source: The Australian

A customer’s toe has been severed by a piece of scrap metal that fell from a truck at a business west of Sydney.

Ambulance crews were called to the business in Inch Street at Lithgow on Thursday afternoon to attend to the 41-year-old.

“It looks like the man has had his toe cut off,” an ambulance spokesman said.

“He has been taken to Lithgow Hospital.”

A WorkCover spokeswomen said the man was a customer and lost his toe when a piece of scrap metal fell from the back of a truck.

A worker at Denis Cooke’s Metal Industries declined to comment and said the business owners were yet to be informed of the incident.

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