Emergency workers have freed a man who had been trapped in the cabin of a tipped shipping container forklift at Melbourne's docks.

Metropolitan Fire Brigade crews were called to Dock Link Road in West Melbourne just after 3.50pm on Thursday after the 75-tonne forklift flipped on its end, trapping the operator inside.

A man trapped after a crane flipped over is freed. Credit:Joe Armao

The man was freed about 6pm and transported to hospital. He is believed to be conscious.

The MFB’s specialist High Angle Rescue Technicians, or HART, attended the incident.