Indiana Conservation Officers are investigating after a Hiltonville man died in a tree stand fall incident in Monroe County Saturday.
Emergency was dispatched to Bruce Lane near State Road 45 in Morgan-Monroe State Forest after a fellow hunter discovered a man who fell.
Kevin Leech, 57, was deer hunting from a climbing tree stand when for unknown reason the stand malfunctioned, causing Leech to fall. Leech, who was not wearing a full body safety harness, was pronounced dead at the scene, officials said.Conservation Officers remind everyone using elevated platforms to hunt to always wear a full body harness, use a tree stand’s safety rope, never try to put up or remove a tree stand by themself, and to always inspect their tree stand before climbing up into it.
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