Reports man trapped by digger in Auckland

Emergency services at the scene on Flatbush School Rd in south Auckland. Photo / Brett Phibbs

Three fire trucks are at the site in Flat Bush, Auckland, where a digger has tipped and trapped a man.

At 4:30 this afternoon fire crew were working to free the man, together with ambulance staff and police.

A fire spokesman said the service received a call at about 4pm that a digger had tipped at a property on Flat Bush School Rd.

"We are responding to reports of a digger tipped over, someone possibly trapped," the spokesman said not long after the incident.

At 4:30 he said the crew were on site and still working to remove him from the digger.

A St John spokeswoman said the man, in his 40s, had moderate injuries.