Indiana Conservation Officers are investigating a fatal tree stand fall that occurred Tuesday, Nov. 22, in Scott County.
Emergency personnel were dispatched to the area of Taylor Road west of Scottsburg in Finley Township after an man who had fallen from a tree stand was discovered by a fellow hunter.
Donald Cass, 94, of Scottsburg, was deer hunting from a homemade elevated stand when it collapsed for an unknown reason. Cass was not wearing a full body safety harness, conservation officers reported.
Cass was transported to Scott Memorial Hospital and then airlifted to University of Louisville Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Conservation Officers remind hunters using elevated platforms 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 alone, and to always inspect their tree stand before climbing up into it.
Assisting agencies at the scene included Scott County EMS and the Vienna and Finley Township fire departments.
Funeral services are pending at Christensen Funeral Home in Seymour.