A 21-year-old man has escaped serious injury after falling off a dumper truck.

The man fell just before 9am on a building site in Colchester Road, Coggeshall, yesterda

He suffered a fractured femur and was flown by the air ambulance to Colchester General Hospital.

Neil Hutchinson, emergency care practitioner, said: "The young lad suffered a nasty injury to his left leg, but was very fortunate not to have sustained a more serious injury."

Published Tuesday, February 22, 2005

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