The Queensland Ambulance Service on Tuesday went to the rescue of a 95-year-old Carters Ridge farmer who had fallen off his bogged tractor and got stuck in the mud for several days.
QAS operations supervisor Shaun Bright said man stepped off the tractor after it became bogged which caused him to fall and suffer a medical incident.
Officers considered the man to be hypothermic and severely dehydrated and with several other co-morbidities, he was transferred to Sunshine Coast University Hospital in a serious but stable condition.
“It was absolutely incredible to see the condition he was in,“ Mr Bright said.
“He was in an altered conscious state. He was covered from head to toe in mud. He had cuts and abrasions and bruises, trying to get himself off the ground.
“It was sad to see his injuries. He was very stoic. He works a property himself without assistance.“
Mr Bright said a neighbour alerted emergency services to the man’s predicament after finding him on the farm.
The neighbour had planned to conduct some work with him on the farm and had been trying to ring him but after a couple of days of no contact he went to check up on him.
