HCSO PIO Samantha Karges clarified:
"This incident happened just after 8 a.m. yesterday, but was handled as a medical call. We were not dispatched to investigate until 9:30 a.m., as the press release says."
On March 7, 2018 at about 9:30 a.m., Humboldt County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to a property on the 2500 block of Hill Ln. in Hydesville for the report of an industrial accident.
An independent contractor, identified as 42-year-old Scott Eskra of Eureka, was doing tree work on the property when he received fatal injuries from a felled tree branch.
Cal-OSHA and the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office are currently investigating this incident.
An autopsy has been scheduled for Friday, March 9.
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