October 21, 2012
By Jeff Wiehe, JournalGazette.net
Noble County hunter falls 17 feet from tree stand
A
hunter in Noble County fell 17 feet from his tree stand Saturday,
according to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.
The hunter, Terry Tester, 57, suffered a serious hip injury from the
fall.
Tester, of Albion, was climbing into the tree stand
for an evening of deer hunting about 4 p.m., according to
conservation officers who investigated the fall.
Just as he
placed his weight onto the platform, two metal cables holding it out
and away from the tree and parallel with the ground snapped in half,
sending Tester plummeting.
Tester was taken to a hospital in
Columbia City for treatment.
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