• Mum impales arm on school fence post
  • Rushed to hospital with a ‘significant wound’
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By NICK WILSON FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

Published: 08:26 BST, 5 April 2025 | Updated: 08:47 BST, 5 April 2025

A Sydney mother has been rescued after impaling her arm on a school fence while trying to retrieve her daughter’s mobile phone. 

Authorities were called to Riverstone High School, in northwestern Sydney, on Saturday morning where the woman, 37, was found ‘dangling by her left arm’. 

‘It’s evident that the fence tore some of the flesh which caused significant pain to her,’ NSW Ambulance inspector Nathan Sheraton told 7News. 

Mr Sheraton said she was left with a ‘significant wound to the inside of her left upper-arm’ and remained conscious despite the pain. 

The woman is understood have climbed the fence in an attempt to retrieve her daughter’s phone after she left it at the school. 

Emergency services were called to Riverstone High School on Saturday morning where they found the woman 'dangling by her arm'

Emergency services were called to Riverstone High School on Saturday morning where they found the woman ‘dangling by her arm’

The woman is believed to have been attempting to retrieve her daughter's phone which had been left at the school when she suffered the injury

The woman is believed to have been attempting to retrieve her daughter’s phone which had been left at the school when she suffered the injury

A spokesperson for NSW Police told Daily Mail Australia emergency services were called to the McCulloch Street school just before 9am. 

Officers attached to the Riverstone Police Area Command were already offering assistance at the scene along with paramedics and fire and rescue crews. 

Nearby tradesmen raised a ladder for the woman to rest her weight on in order to relieve pressure on the wound. 

Authorities were forced to remove part of the fence in freeing the woman who received treatment at the scene. 

She was soon taken to the Royal North Shore Hospital with fragments of the fence remaining in her arm.  

More to come.  

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Horror as woman is found ‘dangling by her left arm’ after getting impaled on school fence and had to be cut free

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