DIXFIELD – Several hours after a loaded E.J. Carrier chip truck crashed into a pickup truck on Route 2 and veered into a snowbank, spilling its load, work continued to clean up the mess.

Robert Tourtelotte, 50, of Wilton, who complained of arm pain, was taken by private vehicle to Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington where he was treated and released, Dixfield police Sgt. Mark Dow said late Tuesday afternoon.

Tourtelotte was driving west in a 2006 Kenworth tractor-trailer behind a 2006 Chevrolet pickup truck operated by James R. Hamner, 35, of Dixfield, when the accident happened at 5:40 a.m. about a mile west of Morrison Hill, Dow said.

Reading from Patrolman Eric Bernier’s report, Dow said Hamner had slowed to make a U-turn in the 55 mph zone. The chip truck smashed into the left-turning truck, spinning it into the opposite lane, then crossed the east-bound lane and plowed through a deep snowbank, narrowly missing a utility pole on Steve Ellis’ property, Dow said.

The rig, its trailer crumpled inward on the Route 2 side, stopped half buried in snow.

Bernier, whose report wasn’t completed because the accident happened at the end of his shift, stated that Hamner also complained of possible arm pain, but didn’t know if he sought medical help.

The pickup sustained an estimated $7,000 in damage. Bernier didn’t have a damage estimate for the chip truck, but Dow said Tourtelotte told him the totaled trailer alone cost $70,000.

By 2 p.m., an industrial vacuum truck owned by Ted Berry of Livermore Falls had started cleaning up the chips.