A BRICKLAYER has told of the horrifying moment when he was run over by an eight-tonne digger.

The Press reported yesterday on the prosecution of Bryan Christopher Kendra and Michael Antony Kendra, of building company L& S Kendra & Sons of Melbourne near Pocklington, who were each fined £9,000 and each ordered to pay £2,500 in costs after breaching health and safety regulations.

Beverley Magistrates’ Court heard bricklayer Andrew Trezise, 56, was run over by the excavator which was being driven by Bryan Kendra, and Mr Trezise, of Northfield Road in Pocklington, yesterday told his remarkable story.

He said: “It was a wet day and the machine was working in a corner and suddenly it came out of where it had been. It bumped me and unfortunately I fell in the line of its track. He drove up on to me and then drove back off but the damage had been done then. I thought if he didn’t stop I wasn’t going to be here long. It was pretty horrendous really.

“It all happened so fast, I don’t know if somebody stopped him or if he realised himself or he had just got to the point where he wanted to be and moved off.”

In all Mr Trezise, who is still undergoing physiotherapy for the accident in July of last year, suffered a broken ankle, two broken bones in his leg, a damaged knee, a damaged bladder and a pelvis broken in four places.

He spent five weeks in Leeds General Infirmary and then another ten days in St James’ after suffering a blood clot.

He is now recovering but still needs a walking stick to get around and walks with a limp.

Mr Trezise, who is married, said: “I’m recovering. I still have to have an operation on my bladder but I’m walking with a stick and I’ve just started to drive again but only short distances around town.”

Mr Trezise, who had been with L & S Kendra & Sons for 12 years, said he was now waiting to see what the future holds, but doesn’t know whether he will be able to work again.