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The vehicle rolled forward and the metal shafts ripped through Jonathan Willis, 42, pinning him against a stack of straw bales.

The left fork tore into his lower back, piercing his intestine and exiting at his stomach.

CCTV video shows Jonathan unaware of the yellow JCB armed with a pair of steel spikes moving towards him.

He can be seen writhing in agony before his wife Wendy rushes to his aid and calls 999.

Crews aboard East Anglian Air Ambulance arrived at the scene 25 minutes later.

Dad-of-five Jonathan, from Wisbech, Cambs, remained conscious as the emergency medics gave him pain relief and firefighters used an angle grinder to free him from between the forklift and straw bales.

The spike was still embedded in his body when he was whisked from the farm in Wisbech, Cambs, to Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Dr Nathan Howes, a consultant at East Anglian Air Ambulance, said: “I’ll never forget the sense of humour he maintained until we reached the operating theatre. It felt like treating a friend.”

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A team of 30 surgeons worked through the night to save him. The thick steel fork was removed, despite being millimetres from causing internal bleeding and damaging vital organs.

Two weeks later, Jonathan was discharged to recover at home – though it took almost five months for his wounds to heal fully.

A year later he and his family have raised £45,000 for the air ambulance charity which saved his life…and he has kept the prong for posterity.

He said: “I’m so, so thankful there were so many experts to help me. The outcome could have been very different.”

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