(La Porte County, IN) - A Kingsbury area man was seriously injured Monday afternoon when a jack failed while he was underneath the vehicle.

About 2:30 p.m., emergency responders went to the 4100 block of South Spring Creek Trail.  La Porte County Police said the investigation shows Garry Woodham, 56, was working on the SUV inside his garage when the jack, somehow, failed.  His left leg was crushed when one of the rotors on the front end of the vehicle landed on it.

Police said firefighters lifted the vehicle off Woodham and applied a tourniquet to his leg to slow the heavy bleeding.  He was taken to Memorial Hospital in South Bend.