SKOWHEGAN, Maine (From news reports) -- A contractor was hospitalized with serious injuries Friday after falling through a roof opening at the Sappi Somerset Mill.
Sappi officials released few details about the case Saturday.
"The individual was transported to a hospital in Portland," Peter Steele, senior manager of corporate communications for Sappi North America Inc. said in an email. "Sappi will conduct a thorough investigation to determine the details of the incident."
An official at the mill who returned a phone call Saturday said he wasn't authorized to speak about what happened.
The Maine Department of Labor's Workplace Safety & Health Division (OSHA) was closed Saturday, so no one was available to comment.
Sappi North America, a Boston-headquartered subsidiary of an international company, employs about 2,100 people at its four mills, technology center, service center and sheeting facilities in the U.S. and Quebec, according to its website. In addition to the Somerset Mill, Sappi operates mills in Westbrook; Cloquet, Minnesota; and Matane, Quebec.
The Somerset Mill produces 1 million metric tons a year of coated woodfree paper, paperboard and label papers, and 525,000 metric tons of bleached chemical pulp, the company says.
Sappi is currently investing $418 million at the mill, including the conversion of its No. 2 paper machine to make a packaging product and increase production capacity. The company said in a social media post earlier this month that the new machine is set to come online in April.
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