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38598 CTY RD 3, CROSS LAKE, MN 56492
Standard 19100266 I03 VI
Initial $2,700
Standard 19100266 H02 VII
Standard 19100266 H02 VI
Initial $25,000
Standard 19100266 D01 IV
Initial $750
Standard 182065308
Employee Is Killed When Crushed by Falling Tree
On February 21, 2005, Employee #1 was felling a birch tree (approximately 60-ft long and 10.5-in. diameter) at a Boy Scout camp. He made a conventional notch cu t, followed by a back cut completely through the trunk. When the birch tree fell , it struck another tree approximately 18 ft away. This caused the base of the b irch tree to swing up and strike his chest. Employee #1 was killed.
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