August 21, 2015
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A logger died in Cambria County this morning after he was struck by a tree limb, state police in Ebensburg said.
Police said the 20-year-old worked for his father's logging company, which was not named in a news release. His identity is being withheld pending notification of his family.
The incident happened at 10:30 a.m. in a wooded area on Thomas Road in Clearfield Township.
Police said the man was cutting down a tree that had a limb wedged in it from another tree, and when the tree fell, the limb broke off the adjacent tree and struck the man in the shoulder. He died at the scene.
Cambria County deputy coroner Joe Hribar ruled the man's death as accidental, police said.