Man stable after dock fall

POLSON — A Polson man was reported to be in stable condition at St. Patrick’s Hospital Monday afternoon after being transported to the Missoula hospital by Life Flight the night before with severe injuries from a fall.

According to authorities, Tom Greenwood was attempting to put his kayak into Flathead Lake off his private dock around 5 p.m. Sunday when he fell off the platform and crashed onto rocks in the shallows. Karen Sargeant, public information officer for Polson Volunteer Fire Department, estimated that the dock’s summit was at least 12 feet above the water’s surface.

Sargeant said a rescue call was put out at first as Polson fire personnel responded to the incident with use of the department’s fire boat. Upon arrival at the Narrows Road property, ambulance crews had secured Greenwood and loaded him onto a backboard but the boat was used to transport Greenwood to a neighboring shore bay location to safely lift the injured man up the embankment to the ambulance.

Greenwood was taken to St. Joseph’s Medical Center where a Life Flight emergency medical helicopter picked up the patient and transported him to the Intensive Care Unit at St. Patrick’s.

More information about Greenwood’s condition or injuries could not be released due to health records regulations.