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Marcola-area Man Dies After Logging Accident

MARCOLA, Ore. --A Marcola-area man is dead after a logging accident Monday afternoon.

 

The man was killed while cutting firewood. It happened around 2:30 p.m. just off of Hileman Road, outside Marcola.

 

Friends say the man was cutting firewood in a grove of trees in the family's hay field.

 

One of the trees they cut didn't fall the direction it was supposed to and somehow hit the 75-year-old man. He died shortly after.

 

The Lane County Sheriff's Office is investigating the incident.

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