LAPUSH — A logger critically injured when he was struck by a falling tree was airlifted by a Coast Guard helicopter crew today.
The Clallam County Sheriff’s Department identified 46-year old Douglas Larson of Forks as the timber faller who was struck on steep terrain off the D-1000 logging road system about 8 miles west of Forks.
Larson, with J-D-L Contracting, was suffered injuries to the left shoulder and back by co-worker and business owner Jimmy Leppell.
Coast Guard Group Port Angeles hoisted the injured logger one mile east of the mouth of the Quillayute River. You can see the video by clicking onto this link: http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php?g2_itemId=406415 .
A full report appears in Wednesday’s editions of the Peninsula Daily News.
