A man has ended up in hospital after his DIY exploits left him with a serious cut to his leg.

The accident happened while the 49-year-old, of Kirby Cross, was using a circular saw.

An ambulance and the air ambulance were sent to the address in Stubbs Close after a call to the emergency operations centre at 11.42am yesterday.

Ambulance technician Emma Nichols said: "The initial call said the man was bleeding badly from the cut on his left leg.

"When we arrived, we found he had put quite a deep cut in his lower thigh. It stretched about 10cm across.

"He told us he had been cutting a piece of wood and it had been against his leg and the saw just carried on into his thigh."

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Published Friday, January 21, 2005

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