CARRABASSETT VALLEY – A Sugarloaf employee working on the mountain was hurt and taken by emergency workers to a Bangor hospital Saturday.

Benjamin Davis of New Portland, an electrician, was listed in fair condition at Eastern Maine Medical Center on Saturday night, according to a nursing supervisor.

Davis was injured around noon, said Frank Guerriero, marketing director for Sugarloaf. As a precaution, he was flown by LifeFlight to a hospital, Guerriero said.

Guerriero said he did not know what Davis was doing for work, how he was injured, or where he was taken by LifeFlight.

According to a Channel 6 report, Sugarloaf workers were investigating problems on the spillway chairlift when the electrician was struck in the head by one of the chairs.

Witnesses told the TV station the man suffered an extremely hard hit, but was expected to be all right.

Around the same time, there was a mechanical problem with this same lift. One of the chairs became loose and slid into another chair, Channel 6 also reported. No one was injured, but ski patrol had to evacuate everyone on the lift, the report said.