A MAN sustained electrical burns after a ladder he was carrying hit overhead cables near Tenbury Wells.

West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to Highwood, off the B4204, shortly before 4.55pm yesterday.

A 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.”