It was a busy 24 hours for the Lowe Corporation rescue helicopter yesterday as it attended four accidents around the region, including a man who injured his face with a chainsaw.
A 55-year-old man was in a serious condition in Hawke's Bay Hospital yesterday, a hospital spokesperson said, after suffering facial injuries from a chainsaw in Ongaonga, Central Hawke's Bay.
The man suffered the injury after the chainsaw he was using "kicked back" yesterday morning.
He was driven to Waipukurau Medical Centre by a friend, and then flown by the rescue helicopter to Hawke's Bay Hospital.
It was the third job in 24 hours for the crew, who also attended an 84-year-old man with head and facial injuries and a dislocated shoulder, after he fell at his home in Mahia about 3am yesterday.