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Emergency services have been kept on the hop at three separate accidents within a radius of about 10km of each other on Wednesday afternoon.

A man in his 70s fell from a ladder at a private property at Black Mountain about 12.50pm.

He was taken by ambulance to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital with a potentially life-threatening head injury.

No information was available on his condition as he was still undergoing assessment.

Paramedics were called after a tractor rolled on a private property on Musavale Road, Eerwah Vale, about 2.20pm.

A man in his 70s suffered chest pains and was taken to SCUH where he was in a stable condition.

At 2.55pm police, firefighters and the QAS were called after a vehicle smashed through a fence into a house on Myall Street, Cooroy.

Nobody required hospital treatment and the damage to the house was described as minor.

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