A 59-year-old farmer was fatally injured in an accident in the Tyrolean Wildschönau on Thursday afternoon. The local man may have been hit by a tree during forestry work. Particularly tragic: after the man did not return to the family farm, he was found dead in the woods by his sister and niece.
The 59-year-old was doing logging work about 150 meters from the farm on Thursday afternoon. “When he did not return for stable work around 4:30 p.m., his 66-year-old sister went into the nearby woods to check on him,” police said.
The chainsaw was in the streambed
She couldn’t find her brother at first, but from an embankment she saw the chainsaw in a stream bed. “Because of the steep terrain there, the woman did not dare to climb down.”
The 66-year-old then immediately alerted her niece, who then descended to the stream bed and found her uncle among the trees. “She made an emergency call and provided first aid,” investigators continued. Unfortunately, all help came too late for the 59-year-old.
Hit by an unsecured tree
“According to the initial investigation, the man was probably attaching a freshly felled tree to the steel wire of the tractor winch. He was probably so seriously injured by another unsecured tree about 8 inches thick that he died at the scene of the accident.”
Source: Krone
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