ATHENS — A man was seriously injured Friday in a fall and was taken by LifeFlight helicopter to a Bangor hospital.
A spokesman for Eastern Maine Medical Center said the man, Scott Roach, was listed in serious condition Friday afternoon.
The emergency was reported at 11:44 a.m. on Chapman Ridge Road, according to Somerset County’s dispatch center.
The Athens Fire Department and ambulances from Redington-Fairview General Hospital in Skowhegan responded. The helicopter met Roach at Redington-Fairview and took him to Bangor.
A woman inside the helicopter radioed that the man fell 12 to 16 feet onto a concrete floor.
Phone calls to Athens Fire Chief Jamie Stafford were not returned. A woman who answered the phone at Roach’s sister’s house declined to comment.
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