By Associated Press - Wednesday, September 25, 2019

WHITESBURG, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky State Police say a 48-year-old man has died in a logging accident.

Police were called to the site near Whitesburg Tuesday with emergency medical workers and found Jimmy Branson unresponsive.

Police said in a news release that Letcher County Deputy Coroner Derek Meade pronounced Branson, of Whitesburg, dead at the scene.



The release said it was initially determined that Branson was hit by a limb that fell when a tree was cut down nearby. An autopsy was planned at the state medical examiner’s office in Frankfort.

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