A WORCESTER schoolboy seriously injured in an horrific firework accident is set for surgery to try to save the sight in one eye.

Tom Munn was badly hurt when a firework exploded in his face at a cricket pitch in Battenhall last October.

He faces an operation to try and open his injured left eye, which has sealed over.

"They eyelid has sealed up, so he's going to Birmingham Eye Hospital in the next fortnight," said his dad Graham.

"At first he could open it a bit, but he can't at all now so they want to line it with a membrane and hopefully that'll help.

"They can't do anything more until the lid is open because it's becoming a problem in its own right.

"The crucial thing is to open the lid because then they'll be able to check his eye pressure and decide if we can progress at all.

"We still don't know if he will ever get his sight back in that eye."

The Nunnery Wood High School pupil underwent a ground-breaking operation last November to save his left eye.

The pioneering surgery was the first of its kind and was performed by Prof Harminder Dua at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre.

The accident happened when the youngster, from Cherry Street, Cherry Orchard, was with his 20-year-old brother and a friend on the cricket pitch, off Evendine Road.

They had been following instructions while lighting fireworks, but one failed to ignite.

When they went back to fix it, the firework exploded in their faces, injuring all three.