A MAN is in a serious condition after an industrial incident in Hereford on Monday afternoon.

Paramedics were called to the premises, off Newton Road, shortly before 3pm on August 3, with one patient airlifted to hospital in Birmingham.

A spokesperson for West Midlands Ambulance Service said: "We were called at 2.53pm to reports of an industrial incident off Newtown Road in Hereford.

"We sent the Midlands Air Ambulance from Strensham, a land ambulance, a paramedic officer and a BASICS doctor to the scene. When crews arrived, they found a man in a serious condition.

"He was treated on scene before being conveyed to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham by air ambulance."