A Mosgiel man has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after a piano landed on his chest.
Senior Station Officer Martin Jansen said two Fire Service appliances and two ambulances attended the incident in Wingatui Rd just before noon.
The man was trapped by the piano when emergency services arrived.
Mr Jansen said the piano was too heavy for firefighters to lift when they were trying to tend to the man.
"It took two firefighters to move it - push it, not picking it up,'' he said.
"We couldn't physically pick it up.''
A St John spokeswoman said the man, aged in his 50s, was taken to Dunedin Hospital with serious injuries after the incident.
Mr Jansen said it was not clear how it landed on him.
