News brief: Logging accident leaves man with head injury

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

A 54-year-old man struck by a large limb while falling timber outside of Rochester this morning was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

Centralia area firefighters called about 9:30 a.m. were joined by responders from West Thurston Regional Fire Authority, according to Riverside Fire Authority.

The patient suffered a head injury, including a laceration to the back of his head, according to Firefighter Karl VonBargen.

He was carried on a backboard about 150 feet to a logging road and taken by ambulance to a helicopter landing zone off Nelson Road, according to VonBargen.

The injuries were described as serious.

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One Response to “News brief: Logging accident leaves man with head injury”

  1. XDs says:
    Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 6:45 pm

    Hang in there, we need to keep our working men around!