NEAH BAY — A Coast Guard helicopter flew a logger crushed by a tree to a Seattle hospital on Thursday.
The man’s name and age were not released by the Coast Guard.
The man was said to have broken his pelvis and his leg and suffered injuries to his abdomen, said Lt. Francisco Montalvo, a spokesman for the Coast Guard’s district headquarters in Seattle.
Coast Guard Station Neah Bay received word at 12:42 p.m. from a 9-1-1 dispatcher that a logger had been crushed by a tree and needed assistance, a statement said.
The man was at the bottom of a 1,000-foot ravine at a site west of Koitlah Point and southeast of Cape Flattery.
It took from 10 to 12 people to carry him out after hiking in, said Petty Officer 2nd Class Jason Greene.
“They had to really work to get him out of the ravine,” Greene said.
Neah Bay emergency medical technicians drove the man to Station Neah Bay, where an HH-65C Dolphin helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles flew him to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
