(KAIR)--A dump truck driver suffers what authorities identify as life-threatening injuries after his truck crashed Wednesday morning in Jackson County.

The driver identified as Logan Kyle Ploeger, of Morrill, by Jackson County Sheriff Tim Morse, was transported for hospital treatment at a Topeka hospital after he was freed from the crash scene.

According to Morse, Ploeger, driving a 1990 International dump truck around 8:30 Wednesday morning on Highway K-116, had been westbound, about a half-mile east of V. Road, when the truck ran onto the right shoulder of the roadway, causing him to overcorrect and lose control of the vehicle. The truck, Morse says, then crossed the eastbound lane and left the roadway, crashing on the south side of the highway, with the truck, now on its side, left embedded in the timber.

Jackson County EMS and the Holton Fire Department also responded, providing assistance at the scene of the crash, which Morse says remains under investigation.