{"id":40746,"date":"2025-11-01T03:04:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/tractor-trailer-rolls-crushing-2-farm-employees-on-a-farm-on-the-r614-near-esenembe\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T03:04:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:04:21","slug":"tractor-trailer-rolls-crushing-2-farm-employees-on-a-farm-on-the-r614-near-esenembe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/tractor-trailer-rolls-crushing-2-farm-employees-on-a-farm-on-the-r614-near-esenembe\/","title":{"rendered":"Tractor-trailer rolls, crushing 2 farm employees on a farm on the R614 near Esenembe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early Friday morning, IPSS Medical Rescue responded to farm on the R614 near Esenembe, after a tractor trailer had rolled, crushing 2 farm employees.<\/p>\n<p>Both men were found in a critical condition, crews worked to stabilise their patients. Due to the nature of their injuries, the decision was made to activate the Netcare911 Helicopter and airlift the most critical patient to a Level 1 Trauma Facility for urgent care.<\/p>\n<p>The second man was stabilised on scene, and transported to a a nearby private facility.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s cases like these, where employees sustain life threatening or life altering injuries, that highlight the importance of Workman&rsquo;s Compensation.<\/p>\n<p>Both men will receive the best possible care.<\/p>\n<p>Tractor-trailer rolls, crushing 2 farm employees on a farm on the R614 near Esenembehttps:\/\/t.co\/cKwuEDxKBY#ArriveAlive #TractorCrash @IPSSRescue pic.twitter.com\/sni4RII1cY&mdash; Arrive Alive (@_ArriveAlive) October 31, 2025&#8230;<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=75110&#038;page=tractor-trailer-rolls-crushing-2-farm-employees-on-a-farm-on-the-r614-near-esenembe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early Friday morning, IPSS Medical Rescue responded to farm on the R614 near Esenembe, after a tractor trailer had rolled, crushing 2 farm employees. Both men were found in a critical condition, crews worked to stabilise their patients. Due to the nature of their injuries, the decision was made to activate the Netcare911 Helicopter and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/573032606_828892589500776_2973615291851684737_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/573032606_828892589500776_2973615291851684737_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}