AT ONE MOMENT HE DISAPPEARED UNDER THE TREE: The wounded woodcutter (21) from Brodarevo was supporting his father and sick mother

The accident occurred on Sunday shortly after 3:00 p.m. in difficult-to-access terrain 13 kilometers from Brodarevo.

With two colleagues from a company that deals with logging and processing, SH spent the night in Milakovići. It was his job, said an acquaintance of the unfortunate young man, to cut down and uproot trees in the state forest that had grown and fallen from their roots. Due to the complexity of the work and the terrain, they arrived in Milakovići with a tractor and bulldozer that cleared the land into the forest for logging.

After the felling of some trees, it was the turn of a huge beech – it turned out to be a fatal EH – with a diameter of 70 centimeters, which was located on the slope above the stream.

– Due to the thickness of the letter, SH had to approach from all sides to cut it. At the end of the last cut, while waiting for the tree to fall to one side, it turned and fell to the other, right over the woodcutter and pressing against him. The beech tree was more than 20 meters high, he had no chance to escape from it – says Blic’s interlocutor.

SH was hit to the head in the middle when he died on the spot. Hoping he was still alive, his colleagues tried to help him out from under the tree, but it was difficult to move him. As they later recounted, EH simply disappeared under a tree in an instant.

Meanwhile, they called an ambulance, which arrived in Milakovići from Prijepolje, 40 kilometers away, but was unable to do anything. The investigation in the Milakovići forest lasted until late at night, when SH’s body was transferred to the Prijepolje hospital. Doctors claimed that the young man from Brodarevo suffered a fracture of the spinal vertebra from a blow to the head and that there were no other injuries, but the competent prosecutor’s office still suggested an autopsy.

– For three years he worked in a timber exploitation and processing company, which covers the entire Brodarevo region and which handles the most difficult tasks related to felling and extracting trees. He was a good, hardworking and educated guy. He supported his sick father and mother with the heavy dinar he earned. Nobody thinks he’s gone. Unfortunately, we are all in shock – says an acquaintance of SH

(Blic.rs)