A MAN was rushed to hospital today after a large piece of wood pierced his arm.
The accident happened at Wood Lake Furniture on Tonge Road.
James Lawrence, aged 19, of Tennyson Street, Farnworth, was working on a woodcutting machine when an offcut flew out and embedded itself in his arm.
Firefighters and ambulance crews attended and the brigade used cutting gear to remove the wood before he was taken to the Royal Bolton Hospital.
Mr Lawrence is employed at the firm as a trainee woodcutting machinist. A spokesperson at Wood Lake said the accident is being investigated.
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