Man suffers burns as ladder hits overhead power cable
A man was airlifted to hoispital with electrical burns after the ladder he was carrying touched an overhead power cable.
Emergency services was called to a country lane in Highwood, Tenbury Wells, shortly before 4.55pm yesterday.
West Midlands Ambulance Service sent an ambulance, a community first responder and the Midlands Air Ambulance from Strensham to the scene.
An ambulance service spokesman said: "When ambulance staff arrived they found a man in his 50s who had suffered electrical burns when the ladder he was carrying collided with an overhead power cable.
"The man had suffered full thickness burns to his hands and exit burns to his feet.
"Ambulance crews treated the man's burns with cooling dressings and administered pain relief in order to stabilise his condition.
"The man was then airlifted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham with the hospital being alerted to his condition prior to his arrival."
