UPDATE
The Westpac Rescue Helicopter has been re-tasked to airlift the injured man to Newcastle.
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The service said it was tasked back to Tamworth hospital shortly after 4pm to collect the farmer.
He's been flown to John Hunter Hospital in a stable condition.
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A FARMER has been flown to hospital after a chainsaw accident near Quirindi on Wednesday morning.
The man, aged in his late forties to early fifties, paramedics said, was using the chainsaw on a property on Black Creek Road at Blackville.
It's understood the man nicked his neck, near his jaw, shortly after 10am and started bleeding heavily.
Ambulance paramedics, along with police and the Westpac Rescue Helicopter were tasked from Tamworth to the scene.
The man was treated at the scene by paramedics and later flown to Tamworth hospital.
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He is believed to be in a stable condition.
The chopper has been flying high over recent days with several missions across the New England.
On Monday, the helicopter was tasked to Black Mountain near Guyra and Inverell in separate missions to transport patients to Tamworth hospital for specialist medical treatment.
The crew also flew to Moree hospital to collect a 15-year-old girl injured in a motocross accident before she was flown to John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle.
On Sunday, the helicopter airlifted an injured paraglider from Mount Borah near Manilla to Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney.
