A 37-year-old engineer from Burton has been injured in a fall from a bridge, an Italian publication has reported.

Il Centro said the engineer, a man from Burton, was hospitalised on September 22, in the neurosurgery department of the Pescara Hospital, in Pescara, to the east of Italy.

The report said staff from Attiva, a nearby garbage company, found him "severely wounded" in the bushes near the Rampigna football field and alerted the emergency services.

Due to the man's injuries it was first thought the man had been the victim of an assault, however, it was later discovered the man had fallen from the bridge at Annunzio.

Police in Pescara also examined CCTV images to establish what happened.