DEXTER – A Garland man was helping a friend work on his snowmobile Sunday morning when he slipped and fell underneath the machine, which then ripped off his foot.

Brandon Blanchette, believed to be age 18 or 19, severely fractured his left leg and his left foot was amputated by the moving snowmobile track, Game Warden Durward Humphrey said Sunday.

The incident occurred at around 11:30 a.m. on Pullen Road.

The two friends pulled the snowmobile into the roadway to work on it and were gunning the engine in hopes of getting it to run better, Humphrey said.

“He lifted up the back of the snowmobile … then he slipped and fell underneath the sled,” the warden said. “It removed his left foot.”

Blanchette was taken to the Dexter airport and a LifeFlight helicopter flew him to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor. A nursing supervisor at the hospital said Sunday evening that he was listed in fair condition.