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Man crushed by tree he was cutting down

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HENRYVILLE -

Authorities say a southern Indiana man was crushed by a tree he was helping cut down when a branch fell and knocked him into the tree's path.

Clark County Coroner Edwin Coots said 48-year-old Danny Shelton of Deputy, which is 40 miles north of Louisville, died at the scene of blunt force trauma.

Sheriff Danny Rodden says Shelton and another man were cutting down a tree east of Henryville when the accident occurred shortly after 2:30 p.m. The second man told authorities they had notched the tree to get it ready to fall, and then moved out of the way when a gust of wind blew down branch that knocked Shelton backward into the path of the tree.

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