Man suffers burns at paint-balling centre near Stafford
Jul 13 2009 by Tony Collins, Birmingham Mail
A MAN was airlifted to hospital after suffering severe burns and cuts to his groin and leg during an incident while paint-balling in Staffordshire.
The man, believed to be in his 30s, was paint-balling at a centre at Dunston, south of Stafford, at 3pm yesterday when the incident happened.
He was flown in the Midland Air Ambulance to University Hospital of North Staffordshire.
A West Midlands Ambulance spokesman said the burns and cuts were believed to have been caused by a pyrotechnic device.
