ASTORIA, Ore. - A third-generation Washington state logger was killed while falling trees in Oregon.
The Daily Astorian reported that Jerrold Samuel Florek of Cathlamet, Wash., was falling trees at the Matoaka logging site in Clatsop County last Friday when a tree struck him.
His family told the newspaper the 51-year-old Florek felled his first tree when he was 15 years old and went to work in the woods full time soon after graduating from high school in 1977.
His death marked the second in the family in nine months.
On Christmas Day last year, Florek's nephew, Justin Florek, was killed on the job after he fell into a salt pile while working at the EquaChlor plant in Longview, Wash.
