Accident in Hermagor

Falling over while working with a ladder: 61-year-old dead!

Tree pruning work was the undoing of a 61-year-old man from the district of Hermagor. He died in a work accident on Tuesday.

At around 5 p.m., the man was pruning trees on his property in the district of Hermagor. "In the process, he probably cut off a large branch while standing on a ladder and then fell over together with the ladder," is how the police describe the fatal accident. The man suffered fatal injuries and died at the scene of the accident.