This is the horrifying moment a worker was cut free after falling into a can crushing machine. <br /><br />On April 8, Burmese labourer Tu, 20, was standing on a platform monitoring the metal items as they were loaded into the huge recycling machine. <br /><br />However, the young lad tried to kick some of the cans through the opening after they became stuck.<br /><br />Tu then slipped and fell into the machinery in a horror accident in Chanthaburi, eastern Thailand on Wednesday afternoon (April 8).<br /><br />Fortunately, Tu's co-worker who was at the controls heard his friend's screams and saw him struggling in the blades. He quickly turned off the machine.<br /><br />Footage shows, Tu, in a black top with medical equipment in his nose being supported by a rescue worker.<br /><br />The emergency services arrived and spent more than four hours cutting open the machine to free the worker's legs that were crushed from the knees to the feet.<br /><br />Paramedics eventually freed him and rushed him to the hospital where medics immediately began working to try and save his mangled leg.<br /><br />Tu's Burmese co-worker, Khine, said luckily that he was at the control centre when his colleague slipped. <br /><br />He said: ''I heard him shout and saw that he had fallen into the machine. I turned it off straight away to shop his whole body from being pulled through the crushers.''
