Deadly accident in a forest during the release of a storm in Scharnstein

SCHAR PIERRE. Saturday morning, a 66 year old man fatally wounded in a serious work accident in the woods after the recent storm damage in Scharnstein (Gmunden District).

"A 66-year-old man from Gmunden District worked with his two sons and a 78-year-old friend in Scharnstein in a mountain forest on 3 November 2018. The men were busy doing forest work to clean up the damage caused by the storm." The two sons cut trees Road and the other two men swept the cut, torn and torn trees up to the forest road. At approximately 0840, the 66-year-old pilot attached the winch cable to the trunk of a fir tree and ordered this 78-year-old pilot to use the winch. During the stripping of the spruce, they grazed a sycamore maple, whose peabad had a height of about eight meters, which was demolished – a demolition length of four meters – and fell on a 66-year-old man, who was thrown to the ground and suffered a fracture of the upper cervical spine and his sons cut the branches of the fallen club for first aid. and started resuscitation. They sent an emergency call via a mobile phone. Alarmed forces moved to the scene. A doctor announced his death at 9:35, "police said Saturday night in a press release.

Source: www.laumat.at