Lifeboat volunteers evacuated an injured quarry worker from a remote site in Argyll in the early hours of this morning.
The worker from Glensanda quarry was picked up by Oban Lifeboat at 1.15am and taken to Oban.
The super quarry, operated by Foster Yeoman, is located on the Morvern peninsula north of Oban and can only be reached by sea.
A spokesman for the lifeboat said: “The lifeboat launched at 1.15am with two paramedics onboard. After an assessment of the casualty at the Glensanda first aid station he was transferred onto the lifeboat and brought to Oban where he was then transferred to Oban hospital by ambulance.”
David Lamb, quarry operations manager, said: “The man is OK and is being discharged from hospital early afternoon. I can’t give out any more information. It wasn’t overly serious and was well attended to by the first aiders on site, NHS 24 and the lifeboat.”
The remoteness of the Glensanda settlement is such that there are no road, rail, or marked footway links across the granite mountain, moor, heather and peat bog of the private Glensanda estate. The only practical access is by boat from the shores of Loch Linnhe.
Since 1982, the 5,900 acre Glensanda Estate has been the home of the Glensanda Superquarry created by Foster Yeoman, since acquired by the Aggregate Industries group, which mines the mountain, shipping up to 6,000,000 tons of granite aggregates all over the world annually.