Another Fatality

[slowp]

From Lewis County Sirens. This isn't very far away. Tragic--a young guy. Sounds like on a skyline side.

Logging incident claims life of Toledo man
Tuesday, February 11, 2014 at 8:57 am
Updated at 11:34 a.m.
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
A 21-year-old man was killed in a logging accident yesterday north of Morton.
The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reports it occurred about noon at a logging site about a mile and a half east of the 1100 block of state Route 7.

Tyler Bryan, 1992 – 2014
Aid responded and CPR was conducted for up to 45 minutes but the young man from Toledo died at the scene, Sgt. Rob Snaza said.
Snaza said the victim was working at the lower end of a slope when it appeared one of three logs being pulled up by a cable began to spin and struck him either in the head or chest.
The Lewis County Coroner’s Office identifies him as Tyler Bryan, of Winlock, as he just relocated there last week.
Snaza said he didn’t know who the logger was working for.
An inspector from the Department of Labor and Industries went out there and is investigating today, according to a spokesperson for the state agency. The logging business is Brintech, based in Mossyrock, Elaine Fischer said.
It was just last month when another Toledo resident was killed while cutting timber. Sixty-three-year-old Alex Oberg was working alone at a site in the Toledo area on Jan. 16.
Oberg was not an employee, but the father of the owner of Dawn Til Dusk, based in Toledo, according to L&I. The sheriff’s office said a tree fell on Oberg as he was employing a “domino” tree falling technique.

 

[OlympicYJ]

Heard about it last night on face book. A tragedy for sure. Very much a shame as he had a child being born soon. There is a relief fund for his family but I don't have the link.

 

[Gologit]

Dammit.

 

[2dogs]

Sad

 

[OlympicYJ]

Here is the link for the relief fund in case anyone is interested.

http://www.youcaring.com/memorial-fundraiser/lived-everyday-like-it-was-an-8-second-ride/137426

 

[wyk]

 

[TreeGuyHR]

Makes me wonder "Why me?" Why have I gotten so many second chances (and made it to 53 in my case), but not this guy?

 

[Pulpwooder101]

Same age as me....... Really makes you count your blessing and thank god for being in the woods with you everyday

 

[slowp]

Sigh, another one. An experienced man, too. A limb flying back was the cause. That makes 3.

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Salkum logging incident claims life of John B. Leonard
Friday, March 28, 2014 at 6:46 pm

John B. Leonard and his wife Linda Leonard at their Chehalis home. / Courtesy photo
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – The logger injured by a large maple limb in Salkum yesterday has died.
John B. Leonard was well known in Lewis County, a logger all his life, according to a family friend.
He used to have J.B. Leonard Logging in Chehalis, Marlene Maki said.
He and her husband have known each for six decades, she said.
“John was 69, he acted like he was 39 years old,” Maki said. “He’d pack hay, he was full of life, that’s for sure.”
Lewis County Fire District 8 Chief Duran McDaniel said an investigator from the state Labor and Industries came out to the site yesterday and was to return today.
Firefighters were called just after 9 a.m. yesterday to acreage just north of the 2200 block of U.S. Highway 12 in between Kennedy Road and Sierra Drive, according to McDaniel.
Leonard was loaded into an ambulance and transported to the Salkum Fire station where they were met by a helicopter that flew him to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
It was just two men working, according to McDaniel. At first it appeared vibrations from a logging shovel shook the limb loose, McDaniel said, but he has since come to understand it happened somewhat differently.
“It appears a falling tree caught a limb, and came back and got the poor gentleman,” McDaniel said.
McDaniel described the piece of wood as perhaps 6 inches in diameter, and 20 feet long, before the operator jumped down and sawed the limb to get it removed from the man.
“The operator and the cutter were the best of friends,” he said.
A spokesperson for Labor and Industries said they are investigating a logging fatality in Lewis County, but had no further information this afternoon.
The death is the third from logging in Lewis County since the beginning of the year.
In mid-January, 63-year-old Alex Oberg, of Toledo, was killed while cutting timber alone in the Toledo area. The sheriff’s office said a tree fell onto Oberg as he was employing a “domino” tree falling technique.
Last month, 21-year-old Tyler Bryan, also from Toledo, was working north of Morton when – according to the initial information from the sheriff’s office – a log being pulled up a slope by a cable began spinning and struck him.
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[northmanlogging]

Been a bad year so far.

All you folks be care OK,

Got enough funerals to go to.

 

[Gologit]

Been a bad year so far.

All you folks be care OK,

Got enough funerals to go to.

Yup.