Hinder, Papa Roach and Buckcherry

A man trying to enter the Bad Boys of Rock concert featuring the bands Hinder, Papa Roach and Buckcherry impaled his thigh on a wrought-iron fence and underwent surgery to have a two-foot section of fence removed from his leg.

The man held himself on top of the fence, 12 feet in the air, during a 45-minute rescue Wednesday until crews working on ladder trucks and a fork lift could cut the fence and get him down. "He had to actually try to hold himself up there," John Kottmyer said.

Rescuers could not remove the man from the fence because doing so could have risked serious blood loss or death, said David Nichols, chief of the West Manchester Township Fire Department.

Blood spattered the sidewalk below the fence. The man drifted in and out of consciousness as firefighters used hydraulic cutters to snap three one-inch-thick iron rods, but was speaking as rescuers loaded him into an ambulance, Kottmyer said.

The man had a ticket to the concert, but he may have been jumping the fence to avoid paying the $5 fair entry fee, officials said.

The man's friends went first, making it safely over. However, the victim fell as he was jumping the fence, and impaled his left thigh on a piece of metal that Nichols said could have been as long as eight inches.