By Rebecca Goldfine and Mary Delamater,Staff Writer Staff Editor

GREENWOOD – A 12-year-old Buckfield boy was injured in an accident at Mt. Abram Ski Resort on Wednesday afternoon.

Cameron Allen was listed in stable condition at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston late Wednesday, a nursing supervisor said.

Allen’s mother, Fay Skiadas of Turner, said her son suffered a concussion while snowboarding and was being held overnight for observation.

“He actually learned a big lesson about wearing a helmet,” she said from his hospital room.

Allen was snowboarding about 3 p.m., she said, when he “went to go over a big jump, hit a small one and then hit the big one. He doesn’t remember anything after that. He landed on the back of his neck and back.”

Tri-Town Rescue in West Paris was called to the resort on Howe Hill Road to give first aid, rescue Chief Norman St. Pierre said.

Allen was flown to the Lewiston hospital by LifeFlight helicopter.

“It’s definite now,” Skiadas said of her son wearing a helmet. “No way he would go without it,” she said her son told her. “Happily, it ended in a good way.”

Earlier, a Mt. Abram spokesman had denied that a skier was hurt on the slopes Wednesday. Messages left at the home of Josh and Susan Burns of Waterford and Falmouth, owners and general manager of the resort, were not returned Wednesday evening.