A MAN has been airlifted to hospital after a serious incident at a building site in Sandbanks.

Emergency personnel from the police, fire and ambulance services rushed to Old Coastguard Road on Friday morning after a wall reportedly fell on a man.

Dorset Police says it received a report at 9.06am that a wall had collapsed on a man at the building site and that the Health and Safety Executive had been made aware.

A spokesperson from the fire service, meanwhile, said: “The ambulance service asked us to attend a site on Old Coastguard Road at 8.57am this morning to help remove a casualty from a large open pit.

“A crew and the aerial ladder platform from Westbourne attended, as did a technical rescue team from Poole.

“The man has been brought to safety and our stop was at 10.04am.”

Bournemouth Echo: Air ambulance at Sandbanks. Picture: Perry JeandrenAir ambulance at Sandbanks. Picture: Perry Jeandren

Witnesses reported seeing the heavy emergency service presence on the Sandbanks peninsula after an air ambulance landed in the Sandbanks surface car park.

Eyewitness Perry Jeandren reported seeing a casualty on a stretcher being taken towards the air ambulance.

A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) said: “We were called at 8.41am to an incident in Poole. We sent an air ambulance, two double-crewed land ambulances and an operations officer and conveyed one patient by air ambulance to Southampton General Hospital.”

The Health and Safety Executive said it has been made aware of the incident and enquiries are being made.