Logging accident kills 45-year-old Oregon man

COQUILLE, Ore. (AP) — The Coos County sheriff's office in southwest Oregon says a 45-year-old Myrtle Creek man has died in a logging accident.

The sheriff's office said a load of logs was being pulled to a log landing Wednesday when one of the logs swung around and fatally struck Darrell Carmichael.

Carmichael was working for JSP Cutting out of Myrtle Creek on a tree-thinning project for the federal Bureau of Land Management.