The accident happened on Thursday morning. The 57-year-old was busy doing forestry work in a forest near Kaisersdorf (Oberpullendorf district).
He felled trees alone. However, some branches remained hanging. Suddenly one of them fell and crashed onto the man’s back. The 57-year-old was thrown to the ground. Man sustained indeterminate injuries The man barely managed to contact a friend by phone. This started the rescue chain. The emergency services responded. After the 57-year-old received emergency medical care on site, he was taken to the Wiener Neustadt hospital in the Christophorus 3 emergency medical helicopter. The fire department was also involved in the recovery work. More and more forestry accidents in Austria Almost 200 people have had fatal accidents while working in the forest in Austria in the past six years. That’s an average of three deaths per month. In 17 percent of cases, victims die from falling branches.
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