It was a hot summer day - June 26, 2018. An aluminium pipe feeding an irrigator exploded without warning and a piece of metal flew into his chest and bounced to his hip, piercing his lung and the top of his leg.

"A piece of metal went in and it opened me up like a tin of tuna," he said. "I'm grateful to still be here."

A quick-thinking fellow farm worker - Tim - used Jonathan's T-shirt to stem the bleeding and called 999.

"I remember the feeling of the T-shirt being inside my chest to stop the bleeding. I still feel that sometimes when I sleep. It's a bit scary - I still get nightmares and stuff," he said.

"It was just a freak accident - wrong place, wrong time."

By 3.45pm, the East Anglian Air Ambulance’s (EAAA) Anglia Two (Cambridge) helicopter crew was set in motion - reaching Jonathan at 4.08pm to take him to Addenbrooke's Hospital.

East Anglian Air Ambulance in action (Image: EAAA)

The Farm Safety Foundation - or Yellow Wellies - has been highlighting some of the dangers farmers face during its annual Farm Safety Week from July 22 to 26 as harvest gets under way - and........

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