A factory worker was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after being crushed by a forklift truck.
Emergency services were called to the premises of Boal UK, in Ashby Road East, Shepshed, at about 7am on Sunday.
The 24-year-old man's rescuers faced a race against time to free him from underneath the machine.
Paramedics were on the scene within minutes and called the air ambulance for help as firefighters tried to lift the forklift.
A spokeswoman for the Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance, based at Coventry Airport, said: "The casualty sustained abdominal and pelvic injuries and was in cardiac arrest when our crew arrived.
"The team opened up his airway so he could breathe, applied a pelvic binder to help stabilise his injuries and created a suitable access to provide fluids and help reduce bleeding."
The man was flown to the trauma unit at University Hospital of Coventry, where an emergency blood transfusion team was waiting.
The man's current condition is not known.
A spokesman for the Health and Safety Executive said it was aware of the incident but no investigation had yet been launched as the matter was still in the hands of the police.
No-one from Boal UK, which manufactures aluminium components, was available to comment.
