Deer hunter injured after falling from tree stand
NEW ATHENS, Ill. — A 75-year-old man is recovering after falling from a deer tree stand in a remote part of southwestern Illinois.
Capt. Tim Daiber of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources’ conservation police tells the Belleville News-Democrat the injuries sustained by the unidentified hunter during the tumble Thursday near New Athens aren’t believed to be life-threatening.
Daiber says that after the man shot at a deer in the Kaskaskia Fish and Wildlife Area, the top portion of his climbing stand collapsed. Daiber says the hunter wasn’t wearing a safety harness and fell from the tree.
It took two hours for rescue workers to reach by boat the remote area where the hunter fell and take him to a hospital.
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