LYSANDER, N.Y. (AP) - Authorities have identified a man who died after a tree fell on him during a logging accident in central New York.
The Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office says Scott Freeman was cutting down trees Friday morning in a wooded area behind a home in the town of Lysander when a tree broke free and fell on him.
Police say the 55-year-old Hannibal man died after suffering a traumatic injury. He had been alone at the time.
Sheriff’s investigators have said Freeman was found later in the afternoon by a friend who was coming to check on him.
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