Man, 20s, impaled by tree branch at Nerang’s Bischof Pioneer Park
A man has been hospitalised on the Gold Coast after a fall at a park left him with a nasty injury. Read what happened.
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A man has fallen down an embankment at a Gold Coast park, becoming impaled by a tree branch and sustaining a nasty injury.
Paramedics were called to Bischof Pioneer Park in Nerang shortly after 8am on Thursday when they treated a man in his 20s.
A Queensland Ambulance Service spokeswoman said he had sustained a significant but non-life threatening wound to his neck as a result of being impaled by a tree branch.
He was taken to Gold Coast University Hospital in a stable condition for further treatment.
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Originally published as Man, 20s, impaled by tree branch at Nerang’s Bischof Pioneer Park
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