(AP) — A worker at a northwest Nebraska grain elevator has been injured in a 20-foot fall.

Gering Fire Chief Jay Templar says the man was doing maintenance work Thursday morning at the Crossroad Cooperative elevator in Lyman when he fell to a platform.

Scottsbluff Fire Captain Jamie Wallace says crews from Gering put the man into a medical sled and then lowered him with ropes to a Scottsbluff bucket truck.

Wallace says the man was talking when he was rescued.

The worker, whose name wasn’t released, was flown to a hospital in Scottsbluff.

A Crossroads employee told the Scottsbluff Star-Herald the man was “doing fine” but wouldn’t give details.

Lyman is 16 miles west of Scottsbluff.