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A 61-year-old man is in a moderate condition in Tauranga Hospital after escaping death by leaping from a rolling digger midday yesterday.
The man was clearing bush on a farm near Te Puna, 11km west of Tauranga, when the digger rolled on the steep hill he was working on.
He jumped off the digger, but received chest and back injuries.
He was stabilised at the scene before being flown to hospital by the Tauranga based TECT rescue helicopter.
- NZPA
