{"id":645045,"date":"2026-10-29T17:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T17:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/645045\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T17:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T17:46:16","slug":"ruakituri-forestry-incident-kills-daniel-james-low-during-log-hauler-loading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/645045\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruakituri forestry incident kills Daniel James Low during log hauler loading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt\u2019s believed a safety mechanism has failed and part of the machine caught two men nearby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/gisborne-herald\/news\/ruakituri-crash-pedestrian-dies-another-person-seriously-injured-on-rural-property-near-wairoa\/IV5AUV4JORD73ABN5D7KBXQFVY\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/gisborne-herald\/news\/ruakituri-crash-pedestrian-dies-another-person-seriously-injured-on-rural-property-near-wairoa\/IV5AUV4JORD73ABN5D7KBXQFVY\/\">Low died at the scene, while the other person was airlifted<\/a> to Hawke\u2019s Bay Hospital in a serious condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">The injured man was reportedly in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">Griffiths said the matter had been referred to the coroner and WorkSafe had also been notified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cVictim Support referrals have been completed and they are working alongside the families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">A WorkSafe spokesman said it had been notified of a fatal incident and was carrying out initial inquiries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">It was not a formal investigation at this stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s believed a safety mechanism has failed and part of the machine caught two men nearby.\u201d Low died&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1081,18829,2837,11784,3238,12506,316049,305,671,14054,3375,89404,316050,8130,17576,10136,111,43,139,69,4056,675,316048,3175,15289],"class_list":["post-645045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-accident","tag-daniel","tag-during","tag-fatal","tag-forestry","tag-gisborne","tag-hauler","tag-have","tag-incident","tag-james","tag-killed","tag-kills","tag-loading","tag-log","tag-low","tag-named","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-person","tag-police","tag-ruakituri","tag-rural","tag-wairoa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645045","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=645045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}