A Sydney mother has been rescued after impaling her arm on a school fence while trying to retrieve her daughter’s mobile phone.
Authorities were called to Riverstone High School, in northwestern Sydney, at 9am on Saturday morning where the woman was found ‘dangling by her left arm’ two metres in the air.
‘It’s evident that the fence tore some of the flesh which caused significant pain to her,’ NSW Ambulance inspector Nathan Sheraton told 7News.
Mr Sheraton said the 37-year-old woman was left with a ‘significant wound to the inside of her left upper-arm’ and remained conscious despite the pain.
She is understood to have climbed the fence in an attempt to retrieve her daughter’s phone after she left it at the school.
A spokesperson for NSW Police told Daily Mail Australia emergency services were called to the McCulloch Street school just before 9am.
Officers attached to the Riverstone Police Area Command offered assistance at the scene along with paramedics, fire and rescue crews and a medical helicopter.
Nearby tradesmen raised a ladder for the woman to rest her weight on in order to relieve pressure on the wound.
Emergency services were called to Riverstone High School on Saturday morning where they found the woman ‘dangling by her arm’
The woman is believed to have been attempting to retrieve her daughter’s phone which had been left at the school when she suffered the injury
Authorities were forced to remove part of the fence to free the woman who then received treatment at the scene.
She was soon taken to the Royal North Shore Hospital with fragments of the fence remaining in her arm.
‘Upon arrival firefighters located a person impaled on a fence about two metres in the air,’ Fire and Rescue NSW Station 83 Riverstone wrote in a post to Facebook.
‘A platform was set up to allow access to the casualty and under the guidance of Aeromedical Doctors and NSW Ambulance, firefighters worked to remove the impalement and free the casualty from the fence.
‘A coordinated effort by agencies resulted in a positive outcome for the patient.’
