(Image: North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service)
FIREFIGHTERS have been called after a person who was left suspended 40 metres in the air when machinery failed in North Yorkshire.
The incident took place in Hurricane Way South, Sherburn in Elmet at 11.41am on Saturday (October 17).
North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said: "An Acomb crew attended a report of a person trapped on a cherry picker at height after the mechanism failed.
"The person was suspended about 40m in the air."
Fire crews used other machinery equipment on site to attach a harness to the person, enabling their safe rescue."