MADISON – A flagger who was struck by a falling utility pole at the Somerset County Jail construction site died Tuesday after being taken to a Bangor hospital.

Officials say 65-year-old Wayne Steward of Skowhegan was struck in the head at about 5 p.m. Tuesday when an excavator accidentally hit a guy wire and tore the top of the pole off at the Madison construction site.

Steward was taken by ambulance to a local hospital and then by a LifeFlight helicopter to Eastern Maine Medical Center, where he died. Steward was wearing a hard hat at the time of the accident.

Federal workplace safety officials are investigating.