NASELLE, Wash. (AP) — The Pacific County sheriff says a 49-year-old Washington man was fatally injured in a logging accident in Naselle.
Sheriff Scott Johnson says John Everitt Inman of Castle Rock was caught Monday between a logging shovel and a stump. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The sheriff says the accident was reported by the operator of a logging shovel owned by Inman Logging of Castle Rock.
The state Department of Labor and Industries and the sheriff’s office are investigating.
