{"id":419237,"date":"2026-05-09T08:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/419237\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T08:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:30:09","slug":"person-killed-after-being-struck-by-tree-while-chopping-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/419237\/","title":{"rendered":"Person killed after being struck by tree while chopping it down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>9 May, 2026 07:35 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A person has died after being hit by a tree they were chopping down in Kopaki. Image \/ Google<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A person has died after being hit by a tree they were chopping down on a farm in the Waikato.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services were called to a rural property in Kopaki this afternoon, about 1.40pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         \u201cInitial inquiries indicate the person had been chopping down the tree and was struck when the<br \/>\n         tree fell,\u201d authorities said.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">WorkSafe has been notified of the death, which will be referred to the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 9 May, 2026 07:35 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,682,3595,214467,6179,6097,3233,702,3375,111,43,139,69,4056,20705,8229,15981,1524,3608,6123],"class_list":["post-419237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-being","tag-by","tag-chopping","tag-died","tag-down","tag-farm","tag-it","tag-killed","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-person","tag-struck","tag-they","tag-tree","tag-waikato","tag-were","tag-while"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}