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Journalist @baltimoresun writer artist runner #amwriting Md Troopers Assoc #20 & Westminster Md Fire Dept Chaplain PIO #partylikeajournalist

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Carroll County Sheriff's Office: Westminster man dies while trimming tree

 

Major Phillip S. Kasten Carroll County Sheriff's Office 100 North Court Street Westminster, Maryland 21157 Office  410-386-2759 Fax  410-876-1152 pkasten@ccg.carr.org


 “Westminster man dies while trimming tree”

Manchester, Carroll County, Maryland, March 12, 2011 ---- At approximately 11:15 a.m. this morning, Sheriff’s Deputies responded to reports of a critically injured man at a home in the 2300 block of Convey Drive.   The man, 59 year old Sidney Wayne Diehl of Westminster, had been assisting friends with trimming the top of a large tree when the tree splintered and caused him to fall nearly ten feet before his safety harness stopped the fall.  Although the harness stopped Diehl’s fall, the tree continued to separate over top of him as he hung nearly twenty feet from the ground.

 Diehl was found dead by rescue teams from the Hampstead, Manchester and Pleasant Hill Fire Companies who had climbed the tree to free him.  Diehl’s body has been transported to the State Medical Examiners Office for Autopsy, and sheriff’s investigators are examining the events leading to his death.  Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact Detective Doug Epperson of the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office at 410-386-2574.  The investigation continues…

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