Cambridge Independent Press 15 Feb 1862 James Saunders injured by hay fork

TRUMPINGTON. — Serious Accident. — On Saturday morning last, James Saunders, a labourer in the employ of Mr. John Maris, farmer, met with a very serious accident. He was employed upon a stack, and a fork which he was using at the time fell against the stack, prong upwards. Saunders in getting down for the fork jumped on to it, the prong penetrating through the flesh of the ham, inflicting a wound several inches in length. The men on the farm at once took the poor fellow to Addenbrooke’s Hospital, where the wound bled considerably, but, under the skilful treatment of the surgeons of that Institution, he is, we hear, progressing favourably.