Fair Go reporter Phil Vine is doing well after spending last night hooked up to morphine after being impaled by a collapsed chair.
The incident is believed to have occurred outside TVNZ’s cafeteria. The chair collapsed, impaling the reporter in the back with a 10cm piece of wood.
A basket was used to lift Mr Vine from the fourth level of the building to a waiting ambulance.
Mr Vine was in serious condition when he was taken to hospital with the wood narrowly missing vital organs.
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