Another one. I worked with this company quite a bit but the name doesn't sound familiar. It's been a bad year and a bad start to the new year.
Centralia resident dies in logging accident in Grays Harbor County
Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at 2:56 pm
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
A Centralia man was killed in a logging accident over the weekend southwest of Oakville.
The Grays Harbor County Sheriff’s Office said it happened in the Minot area on the Brooklyn T-Line Road. They were called at 11:15 a.m. on Saturday.
Erin L. VanBrocklin, 41, had been bucking a log and a crew was rigging up a yarder, according to the sheriff’s office.
A log broke loose and it rolled downhill crushing the victim between it and the log he was working on, Undersheriff Dave Pimentel said.
Pimentel said co-workers had to cut the VanBrocklin out, and they placed him a stretcher and drove six miles to where they met an ambulance at where the T-Line meets Brooklyn Road.
“He was tended to by an aid crew and pronounced dead,” Pimentel said.
Grays Harbor County Fire District 1 Firefighter Shawn Burdett said members of Centralia’s fire department were first on the scene. Responders continued CPR until medics arrived, Burdett said.
He was working for B and M Logging, according to the Department of Labor and Industries. The state agency is investigating the death.
