A man has been airlifted to hospital with severe burns after a reported explosion on a farm in Wales.
Two people were injured after the explosion on a farm near Broadhaven in Pembrokeshire.
Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service received a 999 call reporting a welding explosion in Broad Haven. A man was found outside a barn with "extensive burns over the entirety of his body".
He was airlifted to Swansea's Morriston Hospital and a second person was taken to Withybush General Hospital in Haverfordwest.
The Welsh Ambulance Service was called to Broad Haven just after 11:50am on Thursday (16 November).
A second man is believed to have been taken to Withybush General Hospital in Haverfordwest by ambulance.
A spokeswoman for the Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said: "We had the call at 11.43am to go to a farm near Broadhaven.
"There was one male casualty suffering from severe burns so our firefighters helped with cleaning the area and administered oxygen and extinguished a fire in front of an open barn area. Crews from Haverfordwest and Milford Haven attended."
'Disheartening'
The National Farmers' Union has recently teamed up with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to improve health and safety within the farming sector.
NFU Vice President Guy Smith said: “By far the most difficult part of my job as NFU Vice President is when the HSE notifies me of fatalities or injuries on farms.
“It is particularly disheartening that most of these accidents involve similar and reoccurring circumstances such as working in enclosed spaces with animals or on live machinery.
“All industries involve an element of risk that must be managed, but at the moment we recognise the farming sector has a very poor safety record and we are doing all we can to address this.
“In most instances, it only takes a bit of thought or simple precaution to make safe what could be a fatal or life-changing situation.”
Figures from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have revealed that in 2016/17, agriculture had the highest rate of fatal injury, around 18 times higher than the All Industry rate.
