Two men were airlifted to hospital today after falling 20 feet to the ground from a cherry picker.
Emergency services were called to the incident, in Stretton Road, Great Glen, near Oadby, at just before 7.30pm.
Ambulance crews from Leicester, including a doctor,
were first on the scene and after administering emergency treatment and assesing the casualties requested the help of the air ambulance.
The Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance was called at just before 8am and joined soon afterwards by the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance.
One of the casualties, a man in his fifties, was taken to the major trauma centre at the University Hospital Coventry with injuries to his pelvis, chest and abdomen.
The second man also suffered multiple injuries, including several broken bones.
He was airlifted to the Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham.
